Spring in the Park Daffodils the park adorn Winter Hawthorn is reborn Willows now are weeping green The robin looks for crumbs unseen Buds unfolding now are free Spring is…
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This has been running on a computer 24/7 for over 20 years in an attempt to get an algorithm to replicate a two line poem as a small contribution to…
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UNTIL it hit me it was just a joke Something that happened to other folk If it happened at all And I was not just in thrawl To some confected…
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What3Words.com locates any space of 3m square using only three words. As lockdown therapy I hesitantly tried a poem which contains a 3 word location (in the right order!) so…
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Poem: The Thames at source I went to a shrine without compare To see a river that wasn’t there We strolled from the station forecourt at Kemble Where walkers, like…
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The Thames Flow London is curiously at ease, Invaded twice daily from overseas But the Thames knows Where it goes Its tide with the moon communes Mornings and afternoons Changing…
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Scene 1 Puck If we shadows have offended . . . Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends. Stage blacks out and the lights…
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Poem Sancho’s shop in Westminster in the 1760s In Charles Street there used to be a shop Where many a celebrity was won’t to stop To buy sugar, baccy and…
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Poem Yew Most country folk will tell you all If you cut one down bad luck will befall In churchyards their seductive leaves are spread See how they thrive among…
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Ode to a newly urbanised tree Of all the trees that nature has endowed There’s one alone outshines the crowd Its name is Ginkgo (culled from the Greek) Its history…
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LET’S MEET the commuters of London Town But not the humans of dubious renown Who flood daily across the capital With faces pale and…
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Victoria, 6am (first day of lockdown) Road sweepers emerge in line From goodness knows where A convoy of refuse vehicles Files across Lambeth Bridge No-one is ready to admit defeat…
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Christchurch Gardens, Victoria Street How easy it is to pass them by Excuses fall willingly from the sky The charities speak with one voice They claim that some are homeless…
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Thanks for rebuilding our website! This is a little thank you to Rainmakrr for kindly rebuilding our site in such a fab way! If you are looking for a new…
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London History – The railway that ran dead on time This is a redundant track from the former Necropolis Railway which ferried dead bodies from Waterloo to Woking. Now that…
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