Poems

Food by Lois

Soup of the morning, beautiful soup!

I had a beautiful edition of ‘Alice in Wonderland’ when I was a child, probably given to me by my dear god-mother; sadly I have lost both the book and godmother, but I certainly think of my god-mother almost daily, and ‘Alice’ occasionally too. I loved reading from an early age, and Alice was one […]

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Poems by Lois

The Haunted Gate

Just fourteen lines, and yet this sonnet by John Masefield offers  so many images and pictures, micro-synopses of gripping tales. ‘That broken hedge’ – broken here  conjures more than damage to a line of bushes or shrubs, and then calling it the haunted gate, just makes it even more creepy – and this is just […]

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