As events unfold across the world on this day (which is Day 789 of the Daily Poems) there is a ceasefire in Gaza.  By the frozen waters of the Potomac, Donald Trump continues to reveal himself as a narcissist with no soul.  Our poet Simon Haines is understandably uncertain about what’s next, and is fearful… Continue reading

Regrets and Uncertainties on this Day 788 of the Daily Poems?  Our poet Brian Ford really is uncertain! Uncertainty A poem about uncertainty?What subject shall I choose?I’m undecided. ‘What shall I have for supper tonight?’Is that subject too trivial?I’m not sure. Maybe it should be something much larger;more significant?‘Life, the Universe, Everything’? Would I be… Continue reading

We are still concerned with Regrets and Uncertainties on this Day 787 of the Daily Poems.  Our poet Rob Primhak  has something to say about mornings that taste of stale wine and gall in this astute villanelle. Freedom Solo is free, but freedom is not allhazard and gravity will have their say;sometimes you need a… Continue reading

It is Day 786 of the Daily Poems, still battling with Regrets and Uncertainties.  Our poet André Mangeot reflects on an unsuccessful first marriage and its dying embers. Brand Last night we each drove back alone from ourmeeting at Relate: you to your home, meto mine.  Already on that drive I knewthat all the strategies… Continue reading

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day, 27 January, eighty years after the liberation of Auschwitz.  It is Day 785 of the Daily Poems, and unusually for this site we shall post not one but two poems, taken from the anthology Poetry of the Holocaust, edited by Marian de Vooght and Jean Boase-Beier.   The poems speak… Continue reading