Hooke’s law of elasticity was formulated by the English scientist Robert Hooke in 1660, says Britannica – yes I had to look it up.  So why cavil over it, on Day 520 of the daily poems, with our poet AndyRew whose spring is the stretchy one and not the season?  Here is his metaphysical offering.… Continue reading

It is May, beautiful May; our poet Dennis Tomlinson praises Nature’s music and dance on Day 519 of the daily poems … May Bird music:young beans are dancingabout their polesin morning light. In the shadowpotatoesrise pensivelyone leaf at a time. A bumblebeemeandersaround raspberrieswound with bindweed. Under an archof ivysleeps that old serpent,the garden hose. Dennis… Continue reading

This Day 518 of the daily new poems our poet Rosemary Drescher sees that Spring can be an elastic impulse as life takes hold of infant seedlings and baby legs … Spring as elastic impulse Again a heart propels each new beat of blooda seed ruptures, impelling its shoot against gravityseedlings thread a teeming nano-city… Continue reading

Yes, ’tis Spring, and our poet Helen Price today leaps aboard the 555 bus alongside her muse, one Wm Wordsworth, this Day 517 of the daily new poems.  So brill … On the Spring timetable of the Lancaster to Keswick 555 double-decker bus Earth has not anything to show more fairDull would he be of… Continue reading

Yesterday’s May Day poem was a poignant portrait of Lily of the Valley from Robert Desnos in 1944.  Today, on Day 516 of the daily new poems, our poet Antony Johae reminds us of a problematical day in 2017 concerning a very different May.  Indeed ‘Mayday’ … May Day You say you want to be strong… Continue reading