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DOG SUTRAS

Posted on Dec 3, 2020 by

dog sutra §1 leaves turn into butterfliesthey’ve understood that as winter bitesthey might fly away dog sutra §2 leaves go to earthberries hanglike bright bells dog sutra §3 the two of usyou runningquicksilverinto your futureme as slowas one step forwardand then … Continue reading →

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DOG SUTRAS §1.

Posted on Nov 27, 2020 by

The Dog Sutras and their accompanying photos all derive from walks with Lupin across and around the fields, meadows and woodland near our home in North Hertfordshire. §§§ leaves go to earth berries hang like bright bells

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EXHAUSTED CLICHES AND MIXED METAPHORS

Posted on Nov 7, 2020 by

‘Songwriters are not poets, Or songs are not poems, I should say. In fact, songs are often bad poems. Take the music away and what you’re left with is often an awkward piece of creative writing full of lumpy syllables, … Continue reading →

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NEW POEMS

Posted on Oct 30, 2020 by

                                                                      Right from the beginning of … Continue reading →

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FLIGHTPATHS – POEMS ABOUT AEROPLANES

Posted on Sep 14, 2020 by

We all of us – well, many of us – carry through from childhood certain key interests or preoccupations. Living under what was then the London Airport flightpath, I grew accustomed to seeing at comfortable height pretty much everything that … Continue reading →

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DREAM DAD – a live reading.

Posted on Jul 15, 2020 by

                                       DREAM DAD by DICK JONES                                 … Continue reading →

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Lockdown Readings §1: PILLOW

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LOCKDOWN

Posted on Jun 10, 2020 by

LOCKDOWN Back to the beginning, then. Who lives here still? Some shepherd swain chewing on a stem, staring over the lonely treetops? Fool if you expected silence, or thought that the trees would be empty. But the contrails have gone … Continue reading →

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LINGUA FRANCA

Posted on Jun 3, 2020 by

LINGUA FRANCA Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers. George Orwell Ever since the acquisition of words provided me with a receptacle for memory, I have loved language.  Its music, its power to evoke, its … Continue reading →

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AIW – 2007

Posted on May 9, 2020 by

On a Christmas morning many years ago I was born. Mum and I were in a small maternity home in Horton Kirby, West Kent. A few miles away in my grandparents’ terraced cottage on Hockenden Lane, Swanley, Dad and Alan … Continue reading →

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