Greenlane Poetry

2025 Four Chimneys
2025 Harraga
2025 Lilacs
2025 Routine Visit
2025 Sawn Moor
2025 September
2025 Solstice
All Saints 3pm
Bad Day
Bar des Sports, Charly-sur-Marne
Before and After the Watershed
Call to Witness
Carte Postale
Charlie
Clerk of Works
Dedication
Dog in the Night
Easter Saturday at Festubert
Fargate
first
Force Nine
Forge Island
Four Days in Town
Furnaces
Gwen G
Half Empty
In Glen Howe Park
In Provence
Incident
Kilner's Bridge
Lady
Last Train
Location
Magpies
Man dn Dog
Mungy Lane
North Line
Nurses
Outfield
Painting By Numbers
Passiontide
Patriots
Per Ardua
Pioneers
Poor Pierre
Progress
Release
Rememberings
Romeny
Runner
Spring Training
Start-1
Students in Crookesmoor
Thatcher
The Don at Swinton
The Festive Season
The Hawk in the Tree
The Lavender Feast at Saullt
The Runners in the Fields
The Seasons
Treatment Days
Trips to the Seaside
Up Train
Valley Mist
vase of Flowers
Weston Park
WestWind
What Love Is
Winthrop Park

--chosen-work--

Carte Postale



'three old photos'


Three hundred about but difficult to count
A rough grass slope in front, a pub I know
Behind. They are packed deep
Five or six so tight I can't see what
They stand on in the road
Perhaps on nothing at the Castle Inn
Though in this snap no sign hangs
Above the door to show

Children for the most part
Meanly dressed
Perhaps two dozen mothers
About as many others men in
Jackets shirtsleeves none without a hat
(Hats like dustbin lids) and thumbed and
Crumpled corners on this sepia card. That
Dates it more or less

Now as to what-
I do not see a smile or
Face I know. Each child (none are in rags although
So meanly dressed) is clutching bowl
Or basin, jug perhaps a spoon
A tree beyond the pub is leafless so
This is a needful winter long ago
There are of course no flags