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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!
Who has seen the wind?
Who Has Seen the Wind? Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the leaves hang trembling, The wind is passing through. Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads, The wind is passing by. Christina Rosetti
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The quiet blue September day
Sonnet VIII Upon an upland orchard’s sunny side, I pass the quiet blue September day: There winds through tented fields they sometimes hide, Past woods and meadows green, the dusty way, Down to the ship-speckled level of the bay, And amber sands in crescent spreading wide. Last night the winds were in the trees, and […]
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Grief was the mainmast
Weary with serving where I nought could get Weary with serving where I nought could get, I thought to cross great Neptune’s greatest seas, To live in exile; but my drift was let By cruel fortune, spiteful of such ease. The ship I had to pass in was my mind, Greedy desire was topsail […]
MoreA cloud of dark disdain
I was so excited recently to visit the exhibition from the National Portrait gallery on display at Montecute House in Somerset. A favourite poet of mine, Sir Thomas Wyatt was an Tudor adventurer, soldier and maybe spy, was on display – not the man himself, obviously but two portraits which I had only ever seen in books or […]
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Lois Elsden 