Mercy mercy mercy ...

I've climbed the last few steps -

I've heard a drum -

Boro borombetta - 

I've seen death in a poet's eyes -

Mercy mercy mercy - 



Monday 31 March 2020


The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset

Lost in the linenfold ...

I put down The Mirror & The Light -

There were sad pages ahead -

A snarling duke -

A bishop's fangs -

A king lost in the linenfold -



Monday 30 March 2020


The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset 

Swallows shape an angel's smile ...

What fights with monstrous pike were recorded here - 

What encounters with eels - 

I wanted to write I've watched the river - 

I've worn a cloak of dragonflies - 

I've seen the mist cover the water meadows -

Dandelion clocks measure summer - 

Swallows shape an angel's smile - 

Sunday 29 March 2020

East Stoke

Dorset 

When you became air ...

Walking down the crooked corridor -

Opening the door -


A small wind, like a sigh -

When you became air -



Saturday 28 March 2020


The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset 

My garden hedged with love ...

I hold the small book with its torn yellow cover in my hands -

Gulliver's Travels told to the children by John Lang - 


Gulliver wearing a blue coat -

Marvels in Palmyra Road -.


My mum's writing on the flyleaf -

Christopher April 11th 1960 from mummy and daddy - 


My eighth birthday in a charmed world -

My garden hedged with love -




Friday 27 March 2020

The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset

The sky was tangled in my hair ...

Once I walked under a twilight sky -

I was a like young tree, walking -


My steps were fearless -

The sky was tangled in my hair -



Thursday 26 March 2020


The Old School House
East Stoke
Dorset 

Walking like Blake in Lambeth ...

A path through laurel and blackthorn led to the lake -

A dragonfly was a zigzag of pale blue above the water -

Carp stirred the sand in the shallows -

Small birds sang in the awakening trees -

The air was warm and still -

I remembered those days waiting for the Kindly Ones -

Each moment became a gift of nowness -

So it was now -

I walked like Blake in Lambeth -

The sky a window of heaven -





Wednesday 25 March 2020


The lake
Lulworth
Dorset