Weather forecast today for Wivenhoe says rain this morning and “Yellow weather warning: wind.”  Much the same for the Lake District; imagine a wild wind howling the length of the old corpse road between Ambleside and Grasmere.  Our poet Wendy Webb is smiling at Spring sunbeams.  It is Day 499 of the daily new poems. Storms dance sunbeams in… Continue reading

Our poet Colin Pink gives us a new Spring poem – a poem of conflict, of Gaza, while numerous wars rage on in this unhappy world.  It is Day 498 of the daily new poems. Spring sonnet Spring brings a fresh crop of corpsesleaking bodies ebb their life awaya world filled with violent choicesdisplayed on our screens every day… Continue reading

Today, Day 497 of the daily new poems, our poet Jane Monach celebrates the dandelions of Springtime.  And it is 13 April – Irish poet and Nobel Prizewinner Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was born this day 85 years ago in Belfast.  Like Heany, our poet Jane has an Irish background, and like Heaney moved from Belfast to Dublin. But did Heaney write any poems… Continue reading

At Day 496 of the daily new poems we are creeping towards the half chiliad – but enough of that, will our poet Fiona Clark be tiptoeing through the Spring tulips?  (The late Tiny Tim was born this day in 1932).  Or maybe she’ll personify Spring and drag-race in raspberry pink fluff … April dancers April flash-mobsin sun and racing cloudsfertile… Continue reading

‘Cill Aodáin’ is one of the most loved poems of Galway’s blind poet, Anthony Raftery (Antoine Ó Raifteiri 1784-1835) – better known by its first line, the joyous “Anois teacht an Earraigh” (Now comes the Spring).  Our poet today, Dónall Dempsey, recalls “I remember passing a little school one day and this wafted out in a myriad of little… Continue reading