Stuart Miller-Osborne

I found a poetry book  In a church in Goring  Not far from the River Thames  Quite a number of books  Had been donated by those  With kind hearts and gentle ways  It was a book of collected poems  A thick paperback tired and well read  I found a cinema ticket hidden  Between pages ninety six…

Time was of no importance in the village where I lived  And that also applied to the trains  Which showed up when they wanted to  Both of my sisters Keziah and Keren-Happuch  Worked at the railway stations  One at Eastry and one at Eastry South  They assisted my father and my nameless brothers  I am the…

I have a framed photograph  Of my grandmother on my wall  She is posing with my mother  Who remains hidden in her pram  The photograph appears to have been taken  On a bright day perhaps summer  As my grandmother is wearing  A cotton dress and a wide brim hat  I am not sure if she…

My sister collects porcelain dolls  Some are quite beautiful  She considers them all To be her dear friends  I am currently constructing a dolls house  Using odd pieces of driftwood  Found on the beach after summer storms  Occasionally Desiree gifts me damaged dolls  I have three in total and am promised two more  It gives…

It was noted that Catherine of Aragon was blessed with auburn hair She wore it long which was also commented on at the time  The colour of her hair was slightly unusual  As normally women from Spain enjoyed raven hair  Catherine during her lifetime married two brothers  One of whom became the King of England  The other…

But what if time itself is the disease  Joe  Yes  What do you think of time  He has an attractive wife  Seriously  It is a disease  It destroys beauty  I was on Dartmoor recently  I know it well  Dartmoor has a beauty all of its own  I agree  Time has not destroyed the beauty of Dartmoor  In…

My Spanish princess stepped out of the boat  She walked barefoot over the saturated sands  I noticed then that the hem of her fine dress was spoilt In a few  short weeks this raven would be my wife  This made me very happy as I knew that I was weak  And that a place was slowly being…

That is a nonsense Joe  Why  As technically the dead cannot see  How do ewe know that Martin  It stands 2 reason  Whar proff do ewe have  that they can c anything  A Lobdon Bus or even a scroll  C Dead or not  Joe  My identical twin  H Josie  Just passing bye I read that you have…

Just your average war hero  Wounded  Sent to convalesce on a lonely island  Hidden from war  Whilst there he meets a nurse  Who cares for him  They fall deeply in love  He writes a book  A Book of Keels 

sweet wrappers  in a blue glass bowl  their passions spent my detached hand  floats  around the room  it is attracted to the stars