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Poems
I’ve always written poetry… but far too feeble to share! However, as I also love other people’s poetry, I can at least share some of my favourite poems… and perhaps give some insight why I like them and they are important to me!
On unexpected rain and Wordsworth (ii)
After lovely weeks of glorious sunshine and warm weather, we woke yesterday to the sound of rain – rain and the birds singing! Unexpected rain always brings to mind Wordsworth’s poem, Resolution and Independence. It was inspired by a meeting the poet had with an extraordinary old man up on the moors near Grassmere in the […]
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Large bindweed bells wild hop and streak’d woodbine
This poem is two hundred years old, but John Clare captures the month of June. We may mostly live in towns and cities, and much of the countryside is manged and controlled with little wildness left, but going out for a walk there are still pockets of ‘bindweed bells wild hop and streakd woodbine’ which […]
MoreDark clouds hang in the heavy sky
Last autumn, two friends and I published an anthology of our work, which has been very well received. Here is a poem by my fellow writer, and fellow dragon from our Moving Dragons Write group, John Watts: Autumn Dark clouds hang in the heavy sky, Cold winter time is bearing down. Grim grey clouds like […]
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Lois Elsden 