Memoir a la Wordsworth…
Category: Verse
Waiting room
– Since when were you so interested in art?– Since I was made to wait so long in here.That’s all …
Compartment C, Car 293
The heedless traveller takes her easeIn C compartment’s watery green,Oblivious to art’s mysteries. The landscape that the viewer seesThis girl …
The beast chapel
Inside this roofless barn they congregateFor shelter from the wind if not from wet.They file through the narrow western end;Once …
A statue in Corfu Town
Strolling through Corfu Town looking for lunch,Here’s something promising –A pastel-coloured café, stylish –And vegetarian! that’s unusual.It makes up one …
Ozymandias complete
Beyond that lifeless plain, two rivers run From Taurus’ slopes down to the Persian sea. There Nineveh, Palmyra, Babylon and …
Nadim nadir
People say I’m greedy cos I’m worth a billion poundsBut don’t they know the good it helps me do?I spend …
Poetry can rhyme
Poems benefit from having a themeAs long as it isn’t ‘it was all a dream’.Poems are better forFull use of …
Nobel Laureate
The tests are promising – now run the stats. A piddling two percent for no effect, And eighty three percent …
Twenty
You’re twenty. Taken in your seventh year and now restoredTo family and friends who gave up hope so long ago.The …