limping iambics

Sunday, 2 April 2023

The Pilgrim

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  The Pilgrim in him stirred at dawn, rose from the sobbing hollow of the night and crept from where his wanting wife lay dreaming, sl...
Monday, 22 February 2016

The Mirror

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Good morning, sir, and who are we today? I see another coat that doesn’t fit, A different hat – so many different hats! No tie, of c...
Sunday, 5 January 2014

Voyage des Rois Mages

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Le soleil n'y était pour rien. Lui, il brillait sans réfléchir et nous, ce jour-là, mal lunés, si peu enclins à compa...
Friday, 11 March 2011

Song for Richard

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Let’s sail through the night on a moonstruck barge, Taste dawn on the deck as the stars submerge, Embrace in the lap of a sunlit ...
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Saturday, 9 May 2009

Sub Rosa

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Remember that single flower you picked? Gathered in stealth and trespass, Far, so far in that arid land And I, a whisper on the wind. How co...
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Friday, 19 January 2007

Coming Home

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She sat facing backwards on the train to Crewe, watching herself shrinking in the distance while familiar landscapes flickered past the wind...
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Thursday, 18 January 2007

When Daddy comes home

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There is a moment in our day – which hitherto had teemed with dimpled laughter; tumbled, nudged and winked its way across the sunlit birdson...
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Failed wife and poet, terrible teacher and unworthy mother of three beautiful girls, I have lived in France for thirty years. Here are glimpses of my life with a bit of culture thrown in.
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