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Local Derby (II)
When we’d left they sang “Four nil in your own backyard” ‘tis just a game – fools! . n.b. It was just a knock-out round of a secondary cup competition. We had enjoyed getting that far, but now to the serious business of Saturday’s league match. Grrrrrr. . CLP 25/09/2019 →
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Local Derby
“It’s only a game” Say those who know sweet F.A. They just don’t get it n.b. We lost 0-4 but it was a good night out. Great atmosphere. Better than watching it on telly. . CLP 24/09/2019 →
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On a Cook’s Tour
Borrow two billion Keep spinning the roulette wheel Then just walk away . n.b. Thomas Cook paid around £30 million to a series of Chief Executives over the past few years to keep a debt-laden corporation in business selling holidays to people, many of whom have borrowed money to take a holiday. Money makes the →
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Impartial
Is it Balmoral of me to sit here As neutral as Switzerland during the World Wars Accumulating wealth Whilst the United Kingdom Is asset stripped by Austerity Subjecting my subjects To increasing poverty? . I would not like to Buckingham the trend By intervening in such a way Other than to maintain the status quo →
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On Memory
Cluttered to rafters Where to keep all the new stuff? Something has to give . n.b. How does one keep track of a lifetime’s experience? What is retained, what forgot? What is important; what not? Memories of long ago can resurface at the slightest prompt. These can be matters one had not held consciously for →
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Equinox – Autumn
Thickened by the tired air Sticky with ripened fruit Slow, pitch black, distorted, stretched Beyond recognition These shadows of ours Run out Black rivers Bleeding the last of summer’s heat From our veins Onto the misted ground Into the thin air of autumn Warmth no longer from within We become reptilian Bask on the cool →
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On the Millstream
Flicker reflected Electric blue blur flashes Seen or imagined? . n.b. The iridescent colours of the kingfisher are so vivid that the mind struggles to register whether it has actually been seen. So bright the blue, so fast the flight of this agile bird against the greens of the river and bank sides, its fleeting →
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On the Marsh
Neatly bundled reeds Cut to length, left out to dry Thatch; grown in Norfolk n.b. About 90% of thatching material used in the UK is imported. The renewable roofing material, best suited to the temperate climate of these islands, is that which is grown here in the same environment as the buildings it will sit →
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On Second Thoughts
Too often tempted To speak without thinking Two breaths save me . n.b. A lid to a pottery cremation urn found near North Elmham, “Spong Man” sits reflecting on a life long since lived. This piece of funerary art is dated from the early Saxon era, (3rd / 5th Century CE). The image I have →
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Two Doves
Pure white at first light Flicker in the grey, rise up From emptied pasture . n.b. Where two Devon Red cows had been seen each morning, (until this Wednesday), usually scratching at the wire protecting the young tree, a pair of doves were sitting. I saw them alight their perch and fly up into the →
Journey of Words 