Headscarves
Headscarves As a child, at school, the teaching Nuns wore elaborate head coverings,never revealing even a wisp of hair. …
Category Archives: Poetry
Dollar Bay, a ballad of the sea
The Ballad of Dollar Bay (Air Traditional – Lord Franklin) The Earl of Sandwich, a fine ship was she, As …
A Serenade for Spring
A Serenade for Spring Were the colours ever so glorious as this Spring? Bird song never seemed so loud, …
Galloping Children
Galloping children The ageing grey tenement released it’s children on a fine day; bright, clear skies and gentle breezes, one …
2020 vision, or they still lie to us
2020 vision, or they still lie to us They always lie to us. When they proclaim they are telling …
What about the working man?
“What about the working man?” His roaring filled the street. We were children scurrying past, herd …
Dolphins Danced That Day
This poem is in memory of Martin Colfer. Skipper of the Rebecca C, who often took me out to search …
A Sonnet For Chagall
Sonnet for Chagall These mine eyes are the windows of my soul, where you may think inside of …
Evening stroll, Old Town, Chania, Crete
Evening stroll, Old Town, Chania, Crete He was a gentleman, holding us but a moment, smiling in simple delight …
5th Avenue Haiku
Haiku inspired by two old ladies strolling along Fifth Avenue ,New York City, incorporating a commentary on our times and …
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