(In memory of my mother)
Late stars, in dark blue, Not unlike the dew, In constellations, In such show, Place me in England:
Do not come to me in seeming perfe… Do not insult me so for there is n… Get to know me and you’ll know my… And in such time I’ll get to know… And if encircling each other we fa…
You cannot know the things I know… For you cannot see them in yoursel… I know the things that make you wh… The things that make you what you… The things that someone looking fr…
The polar ice caps Like elders Our parents Watching over us Balancing us
Where I park my old car Behind the fence At the back of my garden The pink and yellow honeysuckle, s… Hangs down and encloses it,
The sound of the sea As it races in Is a mighty din Voiced by the god of the ocean as… From the ravenous swell flooding i…
Two horses in their field of green Do not know how lucky they are Away from the modern industrial sc… Of the chaos and pollution of the… Large and black, this father and s…
When you get to grips With brick or stone, with tools, Drilling holes, or re-shaping thin… To fix a light outside, perhaps, Or laying paving slabs
Be with me, Be with me tonight, Be with me, And hold me tight. Stay with me,
Oh, such splendour in the grey-blu… The pathway created between A double-rainbow, which starts And ends beyond the horizon, Between the known and unknown worl…
Our Winter clothes are long undon… The May-blossom has been and gone… So fast the seasons run, And summer’s warmth has just begun… Swallows veering low and high
The village church upon the hill Has had its fill Of bodies under slabs so still. A thousand years the tower has sto… Originally was made of wood,
Hundreds of dinners are cooking As I walk through the estate, Hundreds of husbands are drinking In the local pubs with their mates… Pork, beef, lamb, and ham,
The light we see From extinguished stars Travels ever on, free, So that someone On a star, who once looked on,
Sometimes we are too close to each… To see ourselves as others do, Too wrapped up within our lives To stop and look and listen And to see the dance that’s going…