Stuart Miller-Osborne

I caught the sun in its last few moments riding Before it drifted quietly into the dark hills hiding The tide is low and awaits the calmness of the night Where it will remain without caution out of sight

The streets that are normally thronged with tourists are silent now Canterbury’s shops are open and awaiting their summer trade But it does not visit them and they are beginning to fade slowly from sight As the sun skipped in and out of the clouds I noticed the pale fires beginning to glow In a […]

You had tasked me to start a library I had been instructed to borrow six books from two churches A Catholic Church and a Happy Clappy Church I chose the latter and entered the church whilst the service was in full swing It seemed that happy clappy people were bouncing off of the walls I […]

I had always been terrified of heights but found myself on the roof of a very tall building To make matters worse I was wearing only my underpants The elastic had broken and they were slipping away I was terrified and embarrassed at the same time You told me that there was a lift that travelled […]

Stone Mauritius was a game that we played as children It involved throwing pebbles into the sea just as waves broke And the winner was the person who could break the clear water nearest to a wave My love of mathematics was developed whilst playing this innocent game Stone Mauritius is not widely played these […]

You are lying naked on our bed My mother is sitting in front of you She is watching a nature programme My mother enjoys watching the television Whereas you display a contempt for this occupation

You say that my poetry is too experimental What do you mean by experimental As you know that I travel along roads much travelled You call me an amateur but we are all amateurs So I take this as a compliment and thank you my dear friend God is the only professional poet and that […]

Sally Anne Wagstaff was born in a dour northern town The third of six children Her mother worked in the local supermarket and her father at the steelworks From a young age she knew that she would not be attractive as she was pear shaped and very small How she envied her step-sister Matilda who was […]

lives by the sea in a small coastal town his bedroom faces france and every morning when he rises from his bed he looks at his mother country and sheds a tear as he is an emotional man during mists and fogs he imagines his childhood before he moved to england and married lucy on […]

I often swop day for night so that I may spend time with you It is a simple technique using a graduated neutral density filter But you tell me that you feel uncomfortable with this science As you feel you can be seen by anybody who cares to look You come home shower and slip in […]