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Friday, 29 March 2019

Dragonfly Tears


"Isabella’s thrill with accomplishment and her abilities in serving others is as great as her difficulties in dealing with frustration and disappointment. In the world of an eight-year-old and in a moment of tears, she captures light on the use of rest, mindfulness, space and recreation to bring refreshment; reinvigorating her stores of energy and sense of personal identity" ...


Not a Toadstool


“What am I?”
I’m not a ‘toad stool’

And who are you!
I’d send you to the zoo

Wednesday, 27 March 2019

"The Sea" Gull


A shiny gull
On one grey day
Hanging on the air

Deep red beak
Matching legs
Eyes that stop and stare

An Autumn Leaf


I am an autumn leaf
Bruised like a pair

From my tree, I hang
Brown and cracked and bare

Monday, 18 March 2019

Terry and Peanut Butter


Six in a box
Now remain few
—Counting hens who

All are but gone
Buried, for rescue—
Leaving just two!

Saturday, 16 March 2019

Snowflake


First came Twinkle
Bunny boy Lynch
Without equal
The strongest pinch!

A rabbit who
—True black and white
And rain-soaked too—
Was not polite!

Friday, 15 March 2019

Restless Wanderer


The She Oak will not take me by the hand
Nor the Poa waltz with me
The wind will not whisper in this sand
Nor the gulls stay beside the sea

Monday, 11 March 2019

Princess Rajah


Appearing on a wall
Beneath a rhododendron
Catching my eye
With a gaze of reflection 

Saturday, 9 March 2019

Timba Snowmow Towns


Timba Towns
Just as it sounds
Proud as Simba
Our dog Timba
One of our family
A true Towns simile
Is Timba Snowmow Towns

Thursday, 7 March 2019

Cannot Last


Ground down
Poured out
Fine powder
Blown about

Friday, 9 December 2016

Fifteen Circuits of our Sun


My sunlit bride on this carousel,
Most precious to me on this planet jewel.
Worth every gem, and more, below the tide;
Loved more than all of Earth's treasures wide.

Monday, 7 February 2000

This Distance That Divides

You all the way over there,
Our worlds so far apart,
This distance that divides,
This time I wish to quickly wind.