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A redraft this post, with thanks to Nel for her very pertinent comments. You can read the previous draft here . INDOOR FIREWORKS Undeni...

About forty plus years ago I wrote a [bad] poem about Noah that contained the line "the world through Noah's eyes" that went o...

Indoor fireworks, do you remember them? I thought they were a thing of the past but a quick search has informed me that they are available t...

I was saddened to hear of the death of Brian Patten this week. I can't claim to have known the man but we talked on occasion and he was...

Here's a poem that describes a chemical plant shut down. It's a slice of my past, back in the 70s I worked as a tradesman in a chemi...

The following poem evolved in my head over a couple of days before I put pen to paper. I had been thinking about a salt mine in Poland I had...

This poem got me out of bed early one morning, I'm not sure it wasn't a dream. IT’S THE APPLAUSE THAT’S SO DAMN ADDICTIVE We had a...