Stuart Miller-Osborne

My poetry will be of great importance to some But will be meaningless to others

Why did you not kill me when you had the chance    Because I did not think that you deserved to die  

It was one of those hot clear days That Folkestone sees so much of  With every colour incredibly bright  And every outline hard and defined   Jane and I were walking along The Leas And admiring the spectacular views out to sea The temperature was touching twenty eight degrees It was so hot that the…

You had a fall whilst walking in this wonderful park We were descending a rough path when you slipped I was a metre behind you and partially broke your fall But you twisted your knee and this reduced you to tears   In the presence of such beauty you experienced pain Which after I collected…

I recently found a black and white photograph Which shows a woman resting on a sofa She is topless but is covering her breasts   What makes this photograph so interesting Is that pattern of her slacks and the pattern of the sofa merge As they are identical in essence she is fading   This…

A white yacht lay at anchor in the bay It appeared deserted with no signs of life But I knew that it was trapped in the doldrums

A high tide was due during the thirteenth hour but came and went without notice or disturbance and then retreated into the haze from where it had originally started its journey

On some summer days when the conditions match a stillness covers our beach with only the motion of the waves breaking the screaming silence of the day   Today was such a day a late summers day when the dynamics of the air muffled any sound no matter how hard the source    

This brave man  So filled with love  For his country  That he finds it difficult to die Is calling out to his friends  And about to die     I am recording this as a peace poem Even though it was written During a time of war             Kuroki Hiroshi was…

autumn grasses in the moonlight the grasshopper always appreciates the sun