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Sitting with Margate Sands watching the Movement of the Planets
You are paddling in the sea in your indigo bikini An Ibex throws a multi-coloured beach ball towards you It sails over your head and lands in the sea You ignore the spray and look at the planets in the wise sky In time they will be aligned The Ibex retrieves the beach ball and […]
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The Whale and the Cliff Path
Christine and Christopher were taking their morning walk along the cliff path that led to East Bay when they came across a crack in the chalk which stretched for over five hundred feet Christopher was alarmed and held his sisters hand urging her not to proceed His sister smiled and ran forward occasionally hopping across […]
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Lady Lido
The lye marks that made Tristan De Coomna betray his country were asymmetrical pearl like and wafer thin he kept a thousand of these tokens hidden in a tobacco tin in the corner of the room the nine day winds had swept his landscapes clean and in this special light he saw Lady Lido moving […]
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Marcia
Marcia lay asleep Next to my African mask Her white shoulders were exposed And contrasted favourably with the darkness of the wood But I liked her soft crimson lips Which even in repose Were seductive Marcia – (Ink on the Wheel) Marcia had finished her task And I was ready to print Her poems […]
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Harry Browse
Harry Browse caught the moon in a jam jar and sold it to the sun he has since faked eclipses on many occasions
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Blue Commitments of the Road
KiKi was sitting On the edge of the road Awaiting her lover She was drinking mead From an amber glass The trapped insects Approved of the romance
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Monta and Monta
Monta and Monta were Siamese twins Who were joined at the hip They were schooled separately in Hebrew and Maths Monta was quite plain whilst his sister was very beautiful They were married on the same day But soon indulged in numerous affairs Which they did not reveal to each other Even though they shared […]
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tfit returns to button moon
murray miller was a milliner who kept blue buttons in beige bottles on the bottom shelf the red buttons were better positioned than the green ones as they appreciated the geography of the shop all the buttons were eagerly awaiting the return of tfit as they knew button moon would be complete again
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The Rood Screen – (A Romantic Tale)
I am an expert on the preservation and restoration of churches and have been so for many years Sadly as I have travelled from place to place I have had no time to find a wife to accompany me Just over two years ago I was asked to visit a church in Suffolk to oversee […]
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Hava Nagila
Seventy years ago over one hundred people Danced in two irregular circles One inner circle One outer circle They were singing as they danced This was captured by a cameraman On black and white film Which still survives Let us rejoice Let us rejoice