Today is 21 December 2024, Day 748 of the Daily Poems.  The Winter Solstice, portal to longer days, shorter nights, the New Year and in due course Spring.  And, astrologically speaking, Capricorn, the 10th sign of the zodiac, governing the period from 22 December to about 19 January.  Our poet Alwyn Marriage heralds this period… Continue reading

Bridge as portal; or indeed the doorway of a bottle-shop as portal: ‘Le Pont du Nord’ was a popular chanson written by French novelist and songwriter Pierre Mac Orlan (1882-1970).  Today is Day 747 of the Daily Poems, and our translator poet Timothy Adès sees the bridge in misty guise.  Le Pont du Nord  by Pierre Mac OrlanTranslated by Timothy Adès… Continue reading

Today is Day 746 of the Daily Poems, and our poet Dónall Dempsey observes, to quote James Joyce, from Scylla and Charybdis, “A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”  Joyce implied that there were no mistakes in his writing, – just artistic brilliance that opened… Continue reading

Our poet Anne Stewart has met her Person from Porlock – “him trying to get past me into the house after I’d said ‘no, thanks’ didn’t help!”  At any event, she confounded him with those dread words “And never darken my doorway again”.  Today is Day 745  of the Daily Poems.  And by the way,… Continue reading

Our poet today, Brian Ford, has found albums full old picture postcards – portals to other lives, other worlds.  It is Day 744 of the Daily Poems. Postcards I found it at the back of the big barn in Grandad’s yard.An old book?(Grandad Ford – pig breeder, firewood seller, collector/buyer of secondhand household goods;furniture, ornaments, pictures,… Continue reading