I live in South Oxfordshire with my youngest son. I wrote my first poem when I was 14 years old and then did not write again until I was 46. My poems are mainly autobiographical (with apologies to those who appear in them) , observations on the quirkiness and craziness of life, or ekphrastic (in response to visual art) . I hope that you enjoy reading them.
I dawdled on the path beside a farmer's fallow field, and
sat down in the shade of a giant chestnut tree,
to watch a red kite in full flight soaring overhead, and cry.
Weatherqueen's Angel sat beside me on the scorched earth,
...
And there you sat in the sitting room,
like green bottles - with your Bibles open -
praying and waiting.
...
I go to the weir when the sluices are open
to listen to the white water roar.
In its dark,
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