» Listings for 2020

1. I

   Posted on 6:35pm Thursday 31st Dec 2020

   I, I, I, I, I, I

2. Glenelg

   Posted on 2:00pm Monday 30th Nov 2020

   Glenelg is a beautiful place on the west coast of Scotland, where the currents race through between Skye and the mainland. The name is a palindrome, and the music is palindromic too; I think that makes it seem like it's always asking a question. The poem is really a question - about the unseen forces that run our lives.

   Click the link to go to the Glenelg poem and music.

3. Get used to it

   Posted on 7:40pm Wednesday 18th Nov 2020

   I've put a short poem and its music on the 'Music to other Poems' page.

   'Get used to it'.

4. John Holmes reads three poems from The Old Human

   Posted on 3:15pm Monday 2nd Nov 2020

   I'm very lucky that John Holmes has found the time to read three poems from The Old Human here.

5. Cycling

   Posted on 12:30pm Tuesday 27th Oct 2020

    

   Here's a sonnet! To my two youngest, who visited a few weeks ago. There's a reading with music on the Music page. Thank you boys!

   Cycling

   Now you are yourselves and strong in all you do,

   This bright window moment and you alike,

   As riding off down the storied road you go,

   Graceful, precious, receding on your bikes.

   I cannot look at you but think of all the years

   Of your growing, your earth-dark and wheat-light days,

   But see those fertile fields and wish them near

   Always; only to let them turn away.

   In time, you too may be divided

   Into two, three, four or more, into boy and girl:

   All you are, dispersed, effortlessly sown,

   Baffling and indefinable, unguided,

   As you spread your balm upon this aching world,

   Yielding me restful, lucky at what I’ve known.