Home Redressed Copyright © 2013 Colin Whyles
Thoughts on the effect of the passage of time on my home town, Spalding, Lincolnshire

These incongruous new clothes you preen
don't suit a country lad like you;
Their stiff-collared grip denying comfort

Burial Copyright © Cameron Hawke Smith 2012

Browngrey chalk clay the earth,
bare the fields the fieldfare breast
fleetingly, as they fare forward north.

The Day My Niece Came To Stay Copyright © Victor Weston 2012

The day my niece came to stay
it was a good day
she lives so far away

Don't Miss Me Copyright © Colin Whyles 2011

Don't miss me when I die; use me well.
A square metre of skin will tan
to make a fetching leather hat,

The Master's Quill Copyright © Colin Whyles 2010

Ode to Poe

The master of the groaning door
Writes red of claw with pen and quill
Shortens breath and quickens it;

Island Wounds Copyright © James Knox Whittet 2008

for Ishbell MacAskill, a noted Gaelic singer

Like music of winds across lazy beds,
your haunting voice turns memory's pained wheels;
gaunt men who scythed below the arched sky's reds;

Lifestyle Choices Copyright © Thraves Thraveson/Colin Whyles 2010

Lyrics: Thraves Thraveson        Music: Colin Whyles

I'll choose the easy life
No hard work for me
I'll not slave for forty years

Valentine Copyright © Rob Lock 2009

She said
you can lay your cards on me
chance your jack of hearts on me
bet on every part of me

Is It? Copyright Â© 2009 Reg Wright

What is a poem? I asked myself one day.
Words on a line, but should they rhyme
And have something to say?

The World is Angry. Copyright © 2009 Reg Wright

Respect, Respect.
The Sheffield steel flashes
Thro the still summer air.