Everyone knows how much we owe to those Ancient Greeks – if you don’t then just look at this wonderful statue probably made for a rich Roman by Greek sculptors in around the year 28 BC. If I were a…
I haven’t made it to my usual blogging spot today because i’ve been locked in a word-wrestling match with three poems that need to be finished for some friendly publishers who’ve been offering improving suggestions. I have spent most of…
I know there are bigger things to worry about in the World at the moment but here in Southern England, instead of an Arab Spring we have had the great Wet Spring and over the last week it has rained…
Another day and another Greek fire lighting ceremony. It’s a tradition that goes back for centuries. After all those anti-austerity riots when someone even set fire to Athens’ official christmas tree, it was no surprize to see that old Greek…
Well I’m sure that he agrees with what he has just said and that he has thought so for some time but at least he’s come out with it in the end even if he had to work out the…
Camellia flowers you have been inspirational – it is sad to say farewell. I’m now looking forward to next year and, maybe a little less rain.
I had been struggling last week with a poem. I know, other people have bigger problems but this poem in particular wouldn’t leave me alone. It is a solitary life trying to write poetry, no one there to mop your…
Welcome Mr President – now let’s see if Europe can start to grow again in the manner envisaged by Barrack Obama and Gordon Brown. It is time to stop Angela Merkel’s bullying….. ….and David Cameron’s dithering. …..but alas poor Greece!
When I was very ill once someone did actually peel me a grape. Fortunately these days I need less care and attention but that sense of luxury that surrounds grapes has never left me. It isn’t just in hospitals that…
Here is my latest poetry video – it has four new poems published earlier this year in The Fib Review and Shot Glass Journal (see LINKS for Muse-pie Press). This video, along with my others, can be viewed on Utube…