• Copse and Robbers Haiku
    Leaves come tumbling down; More falling with each new day: Like attendances.
  • THE PARADOX OF SMALLPOX.
    Born in 1749, he lived In that time of calendrical change, A Julian age of Pope and happenstance, (Where African slaves were mocked for their Creole medicine and smallpox cures) And a Gregorian world of Science, Revolution and Experimentation, (Of Tyburn Tree skullduggery, Where even necrophiliac surgeons Would baulk at payment for smallpox victims) And […]
  • Dream Time
    It was only 30 miles away from Swindon, But it might as well have been on the moon: We never ever went to Oxford, Although my posh cousin did, soon After I first went to Headington and Cowley, In the old days of Division 3. We were on a winning streak And I never saw […]
  • Homage to Catalonia
    Casting my mind back Over the track That led me to here And this reverie after a lunch time beer, Me with a napkin down on my knees, Scribbling these lines up in the Pyrenees, With cacti growing right next to moist, wild iris, And teazles by the vineyard, figs and trellis, Gloucestershire and Catalan […]
  • 7/7: Change/Continuity
    A short list of innocuous names, Leeds, Luton, Aylesbury, Dewsbury, Names once famous for textiles, hats cars and ducks, But now forever linked with something else, Credit cards, King’s Cross and terrorism; Young men who once played football in the street, Have left us all dazed, anxious and confused About our country’s future prospects, And […]