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Clearing The Loft - by Norman Kreitman

{ Poem }

Dismay is waiting behind the door,where across the floor footprints like hieroglyphschronicle the history of past defeats.Dead clothes, the skin of our former selves,still tumble from broken cases, cratessplit their sides with the books, a three-legged chair,bewildered, leans in the corner where a viper’s nestof jerseys entwines a broken lamp –all the high spume and […]

Myeloma Moths - by Karen Patricia Schofield

{ Poem }

The moths came with a soft flutter one night and burrowed intothe deepest recesses of cloth. Their offspring had their fill, gnawedthe wool and cashmere mix of a coatframed by a hanger, shaped like you. They punched out holes, some like starswhich didn’t shine, coalesced into craters.Silver dust littered the wardrobe carpet. They were driven […]

glimpsed in passing - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

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Life - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

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a book of water - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

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The Old Year - by John Clare

{ Poem }

The Old Year’s gone away
To nothingness and night:
We cannot find him all the day
Nor hear him in the night

Twenty Years Ago - by J. B. Salmond

{ Poem }

August 1934 There’s a thin rain of music comes across the poppied corn,    Across the poppied corn and the sun-splashed sea,Crying, ‘Who’s a-going venturing, a-venturing, a-venturing,    Who’s a-going venturing with all a man can be?’O, listen, listen, listen, for it’s far, far away,    The dim remembered country where the ghostly pipers blow,Across […]

Our Place - by Colin Will

{ Poem }

Things seen and done add to memory,
are shuffled like cards in a pack,
come to the top in ways we can’t determine.
Remember this then: that here we stand,
together, once and fifty times, and this remains.

The Field by the Lirk o’ the Hill - by Violet Jacob

{ Poem }

Daytime an’ nicht,
/ Sun, wind an’ rain;
/ …

Poem for Myself on My Fiftieth Birthday - by Tom Buchan

{ Poem }

Never written a poem for yourself
/ have you, you daft old bugger? Well
/ here goes.
/
/ …

Tide - by Stewart Conn

{ Poem }

On that sinuous passage from infancy
/ and youth’s buoyancy through middle
/ life to advanced years, the one certainty
/ is a…

Now Where? - by Jane Kenyon

{ Poem }

It wakes when I wake, walks
/ when I walk, turns back when I
/ turn back, beating me to the door.
/
/ It spoils my…

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