The festival of sleep after Christmas When Christmas and New Year’s Day are finished and you are tired and all your energy has diminished. When all you...
Tag - Poetry
Poetry from Andover’s Poet Laureate and collections of work from other Andover poets.
When the ghosts of Christmas’s past won’t go, they just laugh at all your efforts for this Christmas time the air freshener scent of pine won’t hide the smell...
All aboard the rattle and bone shaker bus the number 76 Leaving at 10 past 6 It takes us past the sunny-haven the green where we had Christmas’s past at our...
Tear down the tinsel put the Christmas tree in the skip rip down the rope lights make the Christmas fairy take flight Santa is in debt his company in...
Did arms reach out to hug you? did words of love reach you? did life the great teacher, teach you? weren’t you a child once? sitting on a swing what did life...
I did this for our children and children’s children Lying in the dirt of a no man’s zone dying and thinking of home tears trickling down my cheek a life born...
My imaginary friend or ghost of a little boy who had one eye green and one eye blue taken into special needs, not knowing why not having a clue. He asked me...
National Poetry Day 2018 is on Thursday 4th October 2018 and the theme this year is ‘Change’. Expect an explosion of activity nationwide, thousands...
Stone grey walls. Where silence falls. where mouths do not speak birds do not sing. On her throne a Queen in a land of mourning every day a new day dawning...
Black clouds are brewing in distant skies Storm crows are shrieking their calls and cries What buildings? What walls will stand? Where she strides worlds...
