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. In Spring 2024, UK poets Jeff Eardley and Peter Hartley crossed paths with American poets James A. Tweedie and ...

. . Reviewed Book: Songs of My Life and Death by Peter Hartley, Grosvenor House Publishing Limited, May, 2023 by ...

. No Going Back We feel our lives are slowly closing round Us when the nights grow longer than the ...

. The Demons of the Night All since she left me I have lived in fear Of creatures dwelling in ...

. The A-bomb Dome in Hiroshima The epicentre of the blast was here, This dome, its empty ribcage gaunt and ...

. The Dodo of Mauritius This island nation scarcely can be proud Of avifauna lacking common sense, Surviving only in ...

. Panic What is this feeling that sometimes afflicts Us with awful intensity and fear? A feeling close to panic, ...

. Maria Montessori Seldom felt hunky-dory. Her vision for education Fell short of inspiring a nation. . King George the ...

. Guilty Thoughts I Through idle thoughts alone if no-one knows, We cannot hurt someone who never will Find out. ...

. . The Hireling Shepherd painting by William Holman Hunt This comely wench was Emma Watkins, she Who sat for ...

. So many things were churning in his mind When scrambling down the track towards the cove, To take especial ...

. Alfred the Great Alfred the Great was a shy king Who found it not much to his liking __Making ...

. À La Mode In Antarctica The boffins in Antarctica are well Adapted to the climate on the ice. Among ...

. Regrets and Repercussions Inconsequential are the things we do Sometimes, or things we don’t, we don’t know why. So ...

. I This crucifixion hides the anguish. Racked With pain, belied by bloodless hands and feet; Intolerable torments, they compete ...

. Geese on the Moor On Laddow Moss the April air is cold And still. A single pair of wayward ...

. While Waiting Through the Night This morning, searching on the laptop, I Found notes I made upon the night ...

. A Black-Listed Species The avian community is glad He’s dying out, the mad oölogist. With every species on the ...

Reviewed Book: Light In the Darkness—The Poetry of Peter Hartley, Dunecrest Press, 2021. by James A. Tweedie Peter Hartley writes ...

. . The Blackbird So what can make this joyous songbird sing That cannot but proclaim its blackbirdhood? In fairest ...

. A portent for our loss, this bird, so nigh Its end. The slowly creeping dusk had dared It to ...

.. Grauballe Man He lies exposed to view in this glass case Exactly as he lay three hundred years Before ...

. From Parthenope’s coast each to his post, Beseeching eyes upraised with steady gaze. That night would nature’s cruelty erase ...

_ I How will I know you or will you know me?When every bird has hurtled to the ground,When every ...

A Wheelchair They kept their car-doors shut and windows closed, Nor left their house but stayed inside, disposed To hide ...

  While Sitting by Her While sitting by her sometimes I would eye Her dextrous fingers plying to and fro ...

  No Longer There I wonder if a change has come about. No longer do I feel that she is ...

  Taj Mahal Built to commemorate a love that died Four hundred years ago, how sad to say She never ...

  Coming Home “Thank you for letting me come home,” she said To me the night she died, and I, ...

  “Laudamus te” from J.S. Bach’s B-minor Mass This aria so beautifully sung, Its obbligato part ethereal; Such coloratura from ...

  I. The rats infesting Kathmandu Airport Appear to co-exist in peace with man And have, it seems, since local ...

  So here he lies as he has lain in state These ninety years in this cathedral crypt At Westminster. ...

On a Bereavement I Mourning Sickness Can anybody say how long it lasts, This numbness that deceives while it relieves ...

The Plight of Animals The plight of animals, how must it be Ordained thus, either by a just God or ...

Spring In spring the crocuses broke out as bold As brass from refuge in their barren clay. They speared the ...

Of All God’s Living Creatures Of all God’s living creatures only we With subtle artifice create our style Of dress ...

I. The Evacuation of St Kilda The remote island community on St Kilda had existed for thousands of years in ...

The Thoughts of a Dog What really does go on inside the mind Of the domestic dog? To simply say ...

The clerihew is a kind of epigrammatic verse (normally) consisting of a pair of rhyming couplets. The first line will ...

Gallipoli, 1915 There are none left on earth can ever tell At first hand of this mortal waste of war ...