Poetry

07/12/2021 0 Comments

Throughout my life my ‘inner essence’ has often guided my work and career choices. It enabled me to make life changing decisions based...

21/06/2021 0 Comments

Poppy Appeal A centenary Of single, scarlet petals Lest we should forget This bold sacrifice Rivers of blood, and heartache For those left behind...

20/06/2021 0 Comments

Wedding Haiku Share each other’s lives In many ways. Go gently, Special friends always. Lesley Young – Writer and Poet ...

19/06/2021 0 Comments

Identity Crisis She was looking for herself In all the usual places Seeking a connection But finding just blank spaces She’d tried the church and...

21/05/2021 0 Comments

On Becoming a University Lecturer I imagined this place would be grand With spires, and Eminent professors with spectacles And flowing gowns...

21/04/2021 0 Comments

I can resist anything but temptation * You’ll never be left on the shelf Reclining there so provocatively In your skimpy white robe...

19/03/2021 0 Comments

Jekyll and Hyde Us Jekyll and Hyde you, Hold me tight in the morning, Say that I’m lovely, stroke our worries away. Then somehow, and always...

10/02/2021 0 Comments

The Long Sleep Years I slept, long and fettered My slow-motion life This weariness, a leaden cloak My line of sight Blurred by wine and...

14/01/2021 0 Comments

Burren Light It began this way. A notion a slight suggestion a search for questions and a yearning just beyond my reach. A curiosity wavering...

21/07/2020 0 Comments

Misguided Fantasy I lost my head (When all about me were keeping theirs – ha!) Over you In a jumble of possibilities If not eventualities...