by Dave Butler | Oct 16, 2015 | Poetry
Oh how I long for Christmas The way it used to be With paper chains and tinsel And presents on the tree The turkey roasting slowly The boiling brussel sprout A glass of Bristol sherry That’s what it’s all about Christmas carols on the radio And falling...
by Don Holmes | Oct 10, 2015 | Poetry
You’d never guess to see me now That I was once a soldier Not stooped and walking with a cane They came when I grew older You’d never guess that these frail hands Were capable of killing Did things that I did not expect To earn the Monarch’s shilling You’d never guess...
by Richard Gildea | Oct 10, 2015 | Poetry
Our former selves appear mere shadows now As “Light of Life” diminishes thru time “To right all wrongs” we all didst once avow Then circumstances caused to realign By actively engaging with said foe Twas thought that we may put an end to war By showing them another...
by Dennis Shrubshall | Oct 10, 2015 | Poetry
In the World we are known as the United Kingdom Great Britain is our own Sceptred Isle Protected by our Military Forces, over the years So close your eyes if you will and think for awhile Of the Wars that were fought to save Nations from aggression One War to end all...
by Jan Hedger | Sep 24, 2015 | Poetry
The bows across the violins bending the oatmeal grass. She heard Vivaldi The rich dark peat beneath springs radiant energy. She felt Earth and Fire The pas de deux of balletic butterflies in the briefest love She saw Romeo and Juliet Sweetened butter adorning spikes...
by Jan Hedger | Sep 24, 2015 | Poetry
Time for me is immaterial as I lie waiting – a deep hollow of entrapment blackness leaching into my sunless soul a completeness of no reflection. I am totally blind, but I can sense movement – and I wait. Why am I waiting? I wait because I am starved. Starved as the...
