Sermons And Gubbins

It’s National Poetry Day again, which means it’s time for my annual look back at the poems I’ve written over the last year. Looking back over them, I think this might have been one of my more prolific years of writing… and, (imho!), one of my better ones too. There isn’t really a single theme running through them. There’s family, faith, death, memory, mythology, social media, school playgrounds, and quite a bit of the stuff of ordinary life. Some are playful; some are rather darker. A couple are fairly traditional in form, while others ended up doing something a bit more different. And that’s one of the things I really enjoy (and dread!!!) about writing poetry. I rarely know quite where a poem is going when I start it. So, in chronological order, here they are: T E A R A small experiment in form, written at the end of last year. The Adventure A poem about adventure, although perhaps not quite the sort of adventure you might initially expect. A Moment to Myself A little space...