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

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Magpies



What is small and not defended
furtive in the winter ditch
not considered fit for purpose
sometimes to become a rich reward for patience

These sustain us in our realm but
in spring rabbits could not hide
so endless bounty in new cabbage
in swede spring wheat and set-aside

A buffeting of winter rain
luckless sinew organ, bone
from them a sheen
we make more sparse
the bleak spring plain