Poems

When I Watch the Living Meet When I watch the living meet And the moving pageant file Warm and breathing through the street Where I lodge […]

When Smoke Stood Up From Ludlow When smoke stood up from Ludlow, And mist blew off from Teme, And blithe afield to ploughing Against the morning […]

When the Lad for Longing Sighs When the lad for longing sighs, Mute and dull of cheer and pale, If at death’s own door he lies, […]

White in the Moon the Long Road Lies White in the moon the long road lies, The moon stands blank above; White in the moon the […]

With rue my heart is laden With rue my heart is laden For golden friends I had, For many a rose-lipt maiden And many a lightfoot […]

You Smile Upon Your Friend To-Day You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover’s say, And happy is […]

An Improvisation For Angular Momentum Walking is like imagination, a single step dissolves the circle into motion; the eye here and there rests on a leaf, […]

Called Into Play Fall fell: so that’s it for the leaf poetry: some flurries have whitened the edges of roads and lawns: time for that, the […]

Clarity After the event the rockslide realized, in a still diversity of completion, grain and fissure, declivity & force of upheaval, whether rain slippage, ice crawl, […]

Cut the Grass The wonderful workings of the world: wonderful, wonderful: I’m surprised half the time: ground up fine, I puff if a pebble stirs: I’m […]