In a discussion with a friend, when I was trying to explain what I was trying to achieve in the parts of the web site showing other people’s work, she said “Oh, you mean a bit like an on-line writer’s group?” I think this is a very apt description.
Here you will will find poems written by some of my friends and other people, sometimes with a short comment by me. You can add your thoughts by contacting me, even if just to say you liked it. I will pass your responses on to the author. You can also send me poems you have written, especially if you would like to see them on this web site.
If I choose to display them, you will, of course, retain copyright. I will also let you know when they go ‘live’.
To begin this selection of poems by friends, four takes on Autumn:
Autumn – by Paul Ferris
Dying leaves sighing
last farewells as wind-borne clouds
shade the fading sun.
Autumn leaves –
The final whispering
Before lights out.
Hear now –
The last whispers
Of red-brown autumn leaves
As wind-borne clouds occlude the sun.
Grey clouds hurry by,
Dead leaves fly – and the wind cries
‘The sun is falling’.
And to preview the season ahead…. jump to January
or to see the year from a hedge’s point of view go to Blossoms In The Hedge