Featured Poem
Poetry is very individual, in content, format and style, but all good poems evoke an emotion or retort of some kind. They are best when they reflect the free spirit of the writer.
On this page, I hope to illustrate a wide range of poetic licence, drawn from my own personal writings, from poems I admire, or from contributions sent in by anybody visiting this page. If you have a poem – the shorter the better - you would like to share, please send it to me via the contact page. If you’d like to give the context of the poem then please do that too.
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To start the ball rolling, the first poem on this page will be one that I wrote during the pandemic.
The Day Out
The day out would be truly grand
Even with close contact banned
We couldn’t flock to the sea
But have a picnic under a tree
It was an elegant repast
That could barely be surpassed
The best pottery knives and forks
And strawberries replete with stalks
We sat a full two metres apart
Wishing though with all our heart
That we would dare to hug and kiss
The things we did now really miss
This was the first time we had met
Since freedom had been under threat
Indeed it was our debut date
Post the call to self isolate
Emotion therefore filled the air
We laughed and played and did not care
Passing the cake we crossed the line
The taste of touch was quite sublime
The sun went down we lingered on
Aware that we would soon be gone
How could being alone work now
We weren’t in the market to that allow
Absence makes the heart grow fonder
Is there a grain of truth to ponder
Maybe it’s something we will glean
From our life with Covid 19