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Poetry Page

If you have a moment then please take a look at this new page where you can find the links to my blog posts with my own poetry in. I write about issues such as my difficult childhood, and my feelings about the late Queen’s possible demise in the pandemic amongst others.

“Queenhood” by Simon Armitage

Some beautiful words by the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, helping us to make sense of what is happening.

Transition

I wrote my poem The Handover during the pandemic expressing my concerns about the queen, and now it’s happened.

La Fin de la Nuit Pour L’Enfant

From Les Misérables, Part I, Book 1, chapter 10, by Victor Hugo L’Eveque en Présence d’une Lumière A transfiguration at a deathbed that leads the bishop to be a good and holy disciple. “Le Conventional, -Quant á Louis XVI j’ai dit non . . . . J’ai voté la fin du tyran. C’est à direContinue reading “La Fin de la Nuit Pour L’Enfant”