Remembering Friends Who Feared Old Age and Dementia More than Death - by
Even when just the other day
/ From Then to Now feels decades away.
/ The name at the back of the mind…
/ What…
friendship
The Soldier Mood - by
We were eating chip potatoes underneath the April stars
/ That glittered coldly and aloof from earth and earthly wars;
/ We were three…
Gone but Not Forgotten - by
On leaving
you playfully punched
my left
shoulder…
Laugharne Churchyard in 1954 - by
Three thousand miles and nearly half a year
/ Away from a drab November afternoon, hysterics
/ Of friends forgotten, and also the plain…
It’s been - by
It’s been a long time
all the time we’ve spent
and we’ve had such times
Women Friends - by
wise women
welcome as sunshine
spreading delight
The Three - by
In the depth of winter
/ In the dark of night
/ There was only one house,
/ Only one light.
/
/ I walked down the…
Cemetery By the Sea - by
Remembering Tessa Ransford, 1938–2015
/
/
/ When Gavin circulated the news
/ I shed a tear or two that early autumn day.
/ What else…
Tik, Johnnie! - by
Allah Dad and Hira Singh,
/ You and I fought for the King!
/ Hajal Moka, Suba Khan,
/ You stood with us, man to man…
Two Horses Against A Hill (for Aonghas) - by
Two horses against a hill, / shoulder to shoulder, / one faces East, the other West, / and I think…
Consolation - by
Though he that ever kind and true
/ Kept stoutly step by step with you
/ Your whole long gusty lifetime through,
/ Be gone awhile…
Scotland to Queensland, Glasgow to Gold Coast - by
The good ship Friendship sails between Glasgow / And your far, your golden, coast. / May fierce friendship forever flourish…