Easter Sunday.  So many connotations.  Christ’s resurrection.  Paschal candle symbolising the appearance of light out of darkness.  Easter eggs a symbol of the Resurrection and new life emerging.  The Easter bunny as a mainly American Protestant rejection of Catholic Easter customs. Folk memories of Eostre, Anglo-Saxon goddess of Spring.  Fertility and rebirth.  I hope that… Continue reading

Easter Saturday and our poet Oscar Kennedy-Blundell recalls days in a city like a cobweb … Day 483 of the daily new poems. Seville cerveceria Down a side alleythere are beers and olivesmerriment a plentya place to slowly frolicin a city like a cobwebwith songs and hanging meatyou know the highest qualityby the blackening of the feet The changing… Continue reading

It’s Good Friday, 29 March 2024, and although we have previously published on the website ‘Sunbeam’ by our poet Colin Hopkirk I think it is just the right poem for us to read again today. Day 482 of the daily new poems. Sunbeam Jesus wants me for a sunbeamand I think of a Sunbeam Alpinethat late 1950s ‘two seater… Continue reading

Sunny morning, a bit blowy. Our poet Simon Haines has another Spring poem. “Written after  checking out Simon Armitage’s new book about blossom commissioned by the National Trust.  We went for a coffee to keep warm and the subject of the poem was very visible from the window.  He had some sort of receptacle on the ground,… Continue reading

Day 480 of the daily new poems. Our poet Lynn White listens to the first sounds of Spring. Spring dreams I close my eyes and listento the first soundsof Spring.Hear the bees fly pastand feel their warm settlingwhen sometimes they alight on meas if they wish to examinethis strange creature,this lone interloper in their world.I open my eyes when I feel… Continue reading