Thoughts On A Prayer Before Birth
While looking at some of my favourite poems the other day, I came across Prayer Before Birth, written by Louis MacNeice during the darkest days of the Second World War.It’s an eloquent plea for a life free from all the
A Spot Of Bizarre Bird Spotting
The poems that I write fall into many different styles and genres. I prefer to write verses that rhyme and scan, but also write free-form poems occasionally. It rather depends upon the subject.It seems extraordinary to me that 80% of
The Beginnings Of A Fairytale Adventure
About a quarter of the 1,300 poems that I have written over the last four years are for children. They fall into various groups: poems about animals, poems about children, poems that are variants of famous children’s rhymes, poems featuring
