Stuart Miller-Osborne

Joe lives in a nameless country Joe loves his country Joe dislikes the betrayal of his country Joe dislikes its leader Joe buys a rifle Joe climbs onto a high roof Joe assassinates the leader Joe is quickly apprehended Joe offers no resistance Joe pleads guilty Joe is celebrated Joe is in court Joe is […]

We either feel beauty or we do not feel beauty That is quite easy to understand A landscape can be beautiful A sunrise or a sunset can be beautiful But one needs to feel it to understand it The eyes can not be totally trusted They play games as conceptions of beauty differ My idea […]

Peter Perfect was at a railway station in India He was changing trains and had a long wait It was a noisy chaotic station that was humming with people Every so often a colourful express train would on horn Scream through the station at speed without much attention paid Peter felt anonymous and invisible which […]

Cinema is cool Very cool We all have our Favourite scenes I have one the Madison dance From Bande à part 

I do not think that my poetry Will win any awards If fact I distrust them An arty cover And nice things being said All because I wrote That I was disappointed this morning To find that I had survived my sleep Or that I find masturbation horny Because I do not have to please […]

Oh Chester You Have taken My Sight I cannot see where I have left my book Was it by the pool Or is it still in my bag Tales of Green Cinema Is the title of the book That I have just purchased But I do not want to start it Before I have finished […]

I have made you breakfast Jane How sweet of you What are you after Nothing Just Stan and Jane And Stephen Crane What makes you say that Because I dreamt about meeting the poet Or rather not meeting the poet I had been invited to his house A huge austere pile on the South Coast […]

It was supposed to be an information film How to Behave in Britain A short section was shot in Midgham in 1943 An American soldier is seen crossing the lines He wants to travel to Cirencester The station buildings can be seen briefly As well as the rustic level crossing I know Midgham station very […]

Although I had seen too many plate grey days January was also a month of stunning sunsets Where for a while the skies exploded into vivid colours From blush pinks to fiery oranges red blue and green I have taken many photographs with my naked camera And have sent them to the dodoes in f […]

In the lattice work of history Old photographs reveal That this area was once rural With lanes flowers and trees And above all a gentle silence But now it is quite urban With a dreadful disease That I fear is terminal