by Don Holmes | Apr 21, 2017 | Poetry
GHOST SHIP On tide awash with swirling mist She headed for the shore Her ghostly sails and creaking spars Would surely be no more No earthly being stood aloft To warn of what would be No grizzled sea-dog on his watch To tell the crew to flee Yet still I heard the...
by Don Holmes | Jan 19, 2017 | Poetry
Rainy Monday, what a day Stormy clouds of black and grey Bringing gales and gloomy light Through the day and all the night Heavy traffic caused by mums Taking kids with “suspect” tums To the school gates. parking close On grass verges, nose to nose How would people...
by Don Holmes | Jan 2, 2017 | Poetry
Wave after wave beat on the shore A fearful wind through rigging tore Then fled the scene to howl past seats Where promenade and houses meet Weaving through the streets of town And bringing pots from chimneys down Not for a moment did it stop On up the hill and o’er...
by Don Holmes | Oct 17, 2016 | Poetry
The photo showed a football team Of young men in their teens Who could know what lay in store For these few might-have-beens They played together through that year That led up to the war When brave men such as these young lads Were slaughtered by the score What hope...
by Don Holmes | Oct 11, 2016 | Poetry
Down Whitehall’s austere Avenue They march with measured stride To honour those who went to war Who fought but sadly died Upon their chests the medals gleam So proudly worn this day Reminders of those harsher times In battles far away And as the eleventh hour sounds...
