On Day 525 of the daily poems we begin the new theme of Summer and Courtship, and our poet today Stewart Francis crafts a tall and slender Song in which he sees high Spring and early Summer come together.   Song When I foundcow parsleyhad metand hitapple blossom,I knew highspringand earlysummerhad cometogetherand thatweatherwouldor shouldbe better,as… Continue reading

It is Day 524 of the daily poems, and perhaps today’s verse will be the last of the Spring themed poems.  It can hardly be called “new” as it was written by your Editor’s late and much revered father, Walter Phillips Kennedy (1899-1982) a long long time ago.  But it may be a fitting one… Continue reading

Who knew about colonial hydroids?  Not your Editor, that’s for sure – but our poet today Fiona Clark notes that these glutinous Sea Rafts, or By-the-wind Sailors, have been visiting the shores of the Channel Islands this Spring.   Day 523 of the daily poems. Spring visitors By-the-wind Sailors have washed up in Guernsey today, slivers of… Continue reading

The wide sky stretchescormorant wingsto the offshore breeze blackheaded gulls dropto pick and prickat silver silt two avocetsstep daintilyin the shallows a shelduck at the water’s margeswivels a questing beak in mud,tracing out its name  an oystercatcher pips and pipesin swoop and wheelacross the saltings while one small skylark hurls its heaven-bent heart of song aloft and… Continue reading

Day 521 of the daily poems.  It is 07 May 2024; Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was born this day in 1840.  Of the twelve characteristic scenes in his piano cycle ‘The Seasons’, Number 5 is ‘White Nights: May’ – a tender and lyrical piece.  As a counterpoint today, our poet Fiona Clark invokes the silver-tuned carolling… Continue reading