The Colour Turquoise

– My Poems (3) Hot long days and water fights, We three young graces Playing chasing games With the French girls in their bustiers Bound firmly in place with multiple straps. Why me? Aqua. Girl guides’ blouses bursting out all over. He couldn’t be trusted with a map on the moor. And the swans swamContinue reading “The Colour Turquoise”

Jenny

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti The name Jenny has a great deal of significance in my family as there were, sadly all now gone, three (some Jean or Jennifer). And each one pretty formidable, in particular my ex mother in-law who was the spitting image of the looked after social worker in my city. This poemContinue reading “Jenny”

MY POEMS (1)

White shoes click clacking. Rosie and I snaking our way through the indigo gloom,Two verdant escorts in tow.We separate. I was one of those kids who had to recite and learn poems as a party piece for the grownups. It became a self-fulling prophecy that my life has been filled with the tapestry of poems.Continue reading “MY POEMS (1)”