The Rhino and the President

He met a Prince once… Trusted – dropped his guard Came out into the open For the world’s press After all wasn’t he protected? Millions of admirers And a Prince saw him once But it took a volley Of bullets, from poachers To bring him down Like a President...

Love is an Alphabet

Awakening to the sun’s weak rays; only just managing to filter through the voile curtain, draped gypsy style, covering the expanse of cheap double glazing – Leah let the music wash over her. ‘Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone…’ Choking back the lump forming...

‘Two Geese Go A Visiting’

‘Do you fancy a day out?’ Said Mr Goose to his missus ‘A day away from the clucking chickens and mooing cows, tractors and bale making and this little pond’. ‘Yes’ said she ‘we can go to Cole Mere; it’s lovely in the spring.’ ‘Let’s pretend we are wild and have an...

Crose Mere

Great Tit sings unseen from bare fingered branches; whilst man is in view Grebes stretch graceful necks on rippling silver mere; whilst man is trapped ashore Skylarks dance on air defying gravity; whilst man is floundering Cloven footed bulls spread their weight...

Five Senses of an April Day

The bows across the violins bending the oatmeal grass. She heard Vivaldi The rich dark peat beneath springs radiant energy. She felt Earth and Fire The pas de deux of balletic butterflies in the briefest love She saw Romeo and Juliet Sweetened butter adorning spikes...