Why You Should Eat Breakfast
Lloyd never ate his breakfast so was always sleepy, cross and slow. One day before the break bell rang Lloyd felt a monstrous hunger pang… He bit his nails, his fingers then his compass, ruler and his...
View ArticleWelcome to my new website and blog…
Hello visiting poets and poetry readers and people who have stumbled here by accident – please do tell me here by posting whether you have enjoyed the site, and what you do and don’t like… Or post a...
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Poetry News!
Newsflash! To celebrate being made one of the National Poetry Day Ambassadors, I am holding a fabulous ‘Poetry and Art Fun at Foyle’s’ day at Foyle’s bookshop, in Bristol. See below for details – do...
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Snow Petrels
. On skies and seas veiled white with light, snow petrels weave and wheel in flight, . they glide and skim from high to low, a falling flock of feathered snow. . In courtship chases pair by pair they...
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Glass Frog
.. With frosted glass hands glistening on stems green as his green, . and eyes of golden amber, polished to a gleam, . glass frog is transparently safe to sit and dream, . camouflaged by clarity, close...
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Leaf-Tailed Gecko
. Moth-flat, flecks and speckles so exact all along it, . as if the mosses that it’s on lie upon it, . the branch’s echo — a leaf-tailed gecko. . . Uroplatus henkeli – Henkel’s leaf-tailed geckos have...
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Alaskan wood frog
Once a week I am going to post about an endangered animal – starting with the letter A and ending with Z. The first animals – amazing Alaskan wood frogs! They live in Alaska, obviously, and are...
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Quokka
. Quokkas are marsupial, and live where it is hot, they have a jumping habit, are small, and smile a lot, . those Australian dingoes will scoff them on the trot – Oz was chock-a-block-a-quokkas, but...
View ArticleAnne Sullivan – extraordinary woman
This is one of the poems from Reaching the Stars: Anne Sullivan Teacher to Helen Keller * Helen Keller lost both her sight and hearing as a baby. She became very frustrated as a child until her family...
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