Stuart Miller-Osborne

As a new born she was laid On her mother’s cold apron Her life milk was the gift Of her three sisters    

The jeweller carried a diamond in the heel of his boot as he fled the country of his birth It would be his future he thought He travelled for many hundreds of miles and found himself in a darkened town If you give me sanctuary I will give you light He shouted in a deserted […]

You died young without seeing the pity of war Which I suppose was correct In the greater shape of things As war is better viewed from Heaven    

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Harry Browse caught the moon in a jam jar and sold it to the sun he has since faked eclipses on many occasions    

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    

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 […]