Autobiography

Cherry

November Arboretum

… murky and dark, a splash of blood-red, a pattern of peach … … yellow stars outspread on a background screen of conifers’ drab

Good, Sports!

This seemed appropriate for today and is also a good example of what I mean by 'nostalgedy'

Everything to Prove to the World Something: Selected Verse and Lyrics 5

There Was Once a Long-Vanished England There was once a long vanished England; Of well-spoken presenters Of the BBC Home Service, Light Service, and...

Everything to Prove to the World Something: Selected Verse and Lyrics 4

See That the Summer’s Come Babe, where's your smile, Don't be a melancholy child, Can't you see That the summer's come? Stuck in your room With your...

Everything to Prove to the World Something: Selected Verse and Lyrics 3

London as the Lieu Until recently, I had the impression Of decaying Along with the moral standards Of contemporary Europe, With London as the lieu To...

Everything to Prove to the World Something: Selected Verse and Lyrics 2

For Something I'd Done I was in a tawdry bar, Or public house, Being threatened, For something I’d done. Darting furiously… Through city streets,...

Everything to Prove to the World Something: Selected Verse and Lyrics 1

A Cambridge Lamentation This place is always a little lonely At the weekends...no noise and life; I like solitude, But not in places Where's there's...
Cherry

On the Mynd

Bright, crisp, gingery bracken, bilberry clumps, and heather, spread of fields below, folds of hills beyond, fringe; net of sunlight beams fan out...

I Still Love

Love's still here; I thought it had died and disappeared, it's hard to believe with what I've seen, heard, and lived. Nope, not easy to explain how I...