Today is Day 801 of the Daily Poems.  There was a day, a while back, when our poet Derek Adams saw the beauty of sunlight sparkling across the Serpentine … On the rocks Hot sunlight sparkles across the Serpentine,echoing in the bursting bubbles it catch lights in our cokes;               … Continue reading

Our poet Colin Hopkirk writes: “Beauty in winter, beauty and hopefulness?” and brings us a brief vision of shoreline trees.  Today is Day 800 of the Daily Poems, which must be some sort of achievement for each and all of our Poetrywivenhoe poets! Colin Hopkirk  close knitoverhung dank with moss crystalline breath undericeislands of hopeheldholding Colin Hopkirk Continue reading

Day 799 of the Daily Poems.  Yesterday’s poem from Brian Ford described the beauty of a differently abled young lady; it leads today to your Editor’s musings on beauty itself, from ‘Songs for a Daughter’. On Beauty   Beauty is an aurora,    it is malachite, alchemy,    obsidian, viridian,it is cornelian.    Beauty is… Continue reading

Day 798 of the Daily Poems.  Our poet Brian Ford introduces us to beautiful Lyndsey.  Imago Dei Lyndsey limps and sways when she walks.Sometimes she waves her arms and flaps her hands.She doesn’t speak,but she often makes sounds. Lyndsey likes music,she rocks back and forth in time to the rhythm.She might smile when she sees… Continue reading

Our poet Derek Adams grazes upon the beauty of the object of his affection’s is.  Derek steers us towards the Martian school of poetry, a poetry marked by startling images, surprising visual metaphors, similes, and conceits.  It is Day 797 of the Daily Poems. Your smile Your smile is the mine of wish.Your hair is… Continue reading