dish of the day | early spring poem
The Muse has been hibernating, but a splash of spring-like weather this morning seems to have caused her to open at least one-eye… I think she must have been peckish too Dish of the Day Just as the air seems sublimely seasonedWith the staccato-singing of small birdsSo, too, the grass is pleasantly peppered withThe piquancy […]
end of april (2025)
a wet and gloomy day today…. 30/04/1025 End of April Muted, miserable, pale-pewter greyBarely one hundred metres awayBeyond the station but encroachingA monstrous curtain of mist descendsObscuring the fields like a Stephen King novella Even Spring’s vivacious verdure hangs its headHeavy with the weight of incessant rainAnd only one avian voice is still raised in […]
january joy
it’s the first month of the year (2024 — 😀 on the assumption this blog may still exist in years to come!) but here in Portugal the weather is unseasonably spring-like…Sun currently shining is mild and tempting all the usual frolics and fecundity of the coming season to erupt a little early: January Joy Percussion […]
apocalypse | as the four horsemen ride out in 2022
with humanity anything but free from the pandemic pestilence of the last two and a half years, with war in the news by the day, and famine for as many as 200 million forecast by the ‘powers that be’… it seems that we are beset daily with tales of economic woes on the horizon: recession, […]
spring’s song | a poem that sprung to mind in 2019
spring’s song is a short rhyming poem written in 2019, during the spring whilst sitting outside here in portugal and listening to this myriad of sounds like an orchestra of heralding clarion calls that, along with the accompanying visual cornucopia of verdancy, all atest to summer’s imminent arrival:
love’s spectacles | a rhyming poem
Poetry is one of those odd things, at least for me, and I am rather hesitant even to claim such a nomenclature for my occasional and arguably questionable efforts… in that they are typically rhymes, and usually rather silly ‘nonsense verses’, most likely aimed a ‘younger reader’, but this is not always the case. The […]