Zoltar ...

Zoltar told fortunes above the beach -

He could gaze out from the arcade at the pale grey sea -


I'd walked down a narrow stair to see what the future held -

My future for a small coin -

The path of the stars mapped in a whirr of clockwork -


15.25
Thursdsy 7 May 2019

Scarborough
Yorkshire

Return to Ravenscar ...

I read The Yorkshire Post once more in Ravenscar -

The log fire was smouldering in the grate -

There were daffodils in a glass -

I looked out over the wide bay -

White waves swept towards the shore -

The sky was full of rain -

There were the cliff tops we'd walked along -

The high path we'd followed, shadowed by seabirds -

Far away, the deep valleys -

The hare running across the moor -


10.43
Wednesday 6 March 2019

Raven Hall Hotel
Ravenscar
Yorkshire

Edith's house ...

We met Martha and Dorcas in the Yay Cafe -

There was a woolly bicycle hanging from the wall -

A painting of Edith Sitwell in a pristine room -


This I thought, was once her house -

I said the three names -

Edith -

Osbert -

Sacheverell -


There she was in the painting -

A red turban -

Her thin clever mouth -

That nose -

Those grey blue hooded eyes -


11.39
Tuesday 5 February 2019


Woodend
Scarborough

Sunday Scarborough ...

I saw the donkeys being led to North Bay -

Herring gulls flew through the Sunday streets -

The past lay lightly upon the rooftops -

There were boys in khaki in the funicular -

Summer music in the Italian Gardens -


10.41
Sunday 3 March 2019

Scarborough 

Leaving for the north ...

The river flowed through the city of many stories -

Each tongue I heard was different -

Glass towers reflected sunlight -

I read the names of all the muses -

Creatives lingered in the pristine gallery -

There were paintings which were like disturbing dreams -

Grey people lay in the pavements -

The long trains left the stations -

The sky joined both worlds together -

Where I was now -

Where I would be -


Saturday 2 March 2019


South Bank, Kings Cross
London

The Carvery ,..

We took off our flat caps in the bar -

Northerners were watching football on the screens -

Rain was falling on the darkening fields -

Liverpool were playing Everton -

Tuesday night, there would be comedy with a curry -

Later that week, live music from Alice in Thunderland -


17.31
Sunday 3 March 2019

The Mayfield
Seamer
Yorkshire 

A crown of flowers ...

Soon I'll be wearing a big coat -

I'll walk where saints walked -

There will be cliffs -

A cold sea -

A castle -

The Heavenfield -

I'll hear my grandson laughing -

I'll see him dance -

He'll wear a crown of flowers -


19.16
Friday 1 March 2019

The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset