Poems

Conundrums Tell me a word that you’ve often heard, yet it makes you squint when you see it in print! Tell me a thing that you’ve […]

Craving for Spring I wish it were spring in the world. Let it be spring! Come, bubbling, surging tide of sap! Come, rush of creation! Come, […]

Cruelty and Love What large, dark hands are those at the window Lifted, grasping in the yellow light Which makes its way through the curtain web […]

Discipline It is stormy, and raindrops cling like silver bees to the pane, The thin sycamores in the playground are swinging with flattened leaves; The heads […]

Discord in Childhood Outside the house an ash-tree hung its terrible whips, And at night when the wind arose, the lash of the tree Shrieked and […]

Dissolute Many years have I still to burn, detained Like a candle flame on this body; but I enshine A darkness within me, a presence which […]

Dolor of Autumn The acrid scents of autumn, Reminiscent of slinking beasts, make me fear Everything, tear-trembling stars of autumn And the snore of the night […]

Dreams All people dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their mind, Wake in the morning to find that […]

Dreams Nascent My world is a painted fresco, where coloured shapes Of old, ineffectual lives linger blurred and warm; An endless tapestry the past has women […]

Dreams Old I have opened the window to warm my hands on the sill Where the sunlight soaks in the stone: the afternoon Is full of […]