WRITER
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!
A lovely stream
A Rivulet It is a lovely stream; its wavelets purl As if they echoed to the fall and rise Of the capricious breeze; each upward curl That splashes pearl, mirrors the fairy eyes Of viewless passer, and the billows hurl Their sparkles on her lap, as over she flies And see, where onward whirls, […]
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A moony song
It is a historic day today in the so called United Kingdom; it seems appropriate to share a nonsense poem: The Jumblies They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter’s morn, on a stormy day, In […]
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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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Lois Elsden 