We arrive at Day 540 of the daily poems, in this Chinese Year of the Dragon.  Our poet Fiona Clark imagines a fiery courtship.  Woman in the Year of the Dragon Fiery red dragon,         dancing in the skies.             She grew bold  his hot breath     on the back of her neck                        flame in her veins                painted her nails                              cherry red,         put on her scarlet… Continue reading

Day 539 of the daily poems.  A summer morning, overcast.  Our poet Colin Hopkirk is walking on the beach.  It’s a dead deer that looks out of place on a beach. From a distance it is hard to make out what it is.  Don’t want it to be dead. Beach deer It was no deer… Continue reading

Day 538 of the daily poems.  Our poet Fiona Clark envisages a scene of meadows, cool waters and summer courtship in her poem ‘Not Flatford Mill’, which celebrates the beauty of the low-key, the ordinary, the not especially picturesque aspects of nature – and not especially dramatic aspects of love … Not Flatford Mill The… Continue reading

Let us imagine a Summer courtship with fleeting evocations of Philip Larkin in this poem of companionship and love. A quiet villanelle from our poet Colin Pink on this Day 537 of the daily poems. Reclining figures Lying side by side, together, beneath a white sheetwe are still as figures carved in timeless effigy.In companionable… Continue reading

“Yesterday, When I Was Young” –  one of Charles Aznavour’s greatest songs.  Today 22 May 2024 is the centenary of his birth.  And on Day 536 of the daily poems our poet Mary L Walsh finds a rich, heady summer blossom of love … sing it, Mary! Fragility I found the fragility of love, I don’t… Continue reading