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!

Buzz

We’ve had a lovely weekend away with cousins, they live in a very old village not far from Swindon, and as well as being excellent company, they always  find interesting places to take us and things to do and see. So it was this weekend, a walk to an ancient stone barrow grave, continuing round […]

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summer’s splendid heat

For our writing today, we looked at an Anglo-Saxon verse… none of us speak it, but we just loved the sound of it, and there was a translation which helped us work out what it meant. Forst sceal freosan, fyr wudu meltan, eorðe growan, is brycgian, wæter helm wegan, wundrum lucan eorðan ciðas. An sceal […]

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