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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Painting By Numbers



I am at the back
with brush in hand and bitten lip
grass at bottom sky at top
next to beaming Marjorie who died
smiles and frowns on many infant faces
many I recall though some are lost

By the bench
where I stand is visual-aid for sums above
three birds four flowers five cherries
six orange pippins carrots seven swans
we later painted skylarks seventeen

And seventeen
the guiltless faces sometime learning grass
grows upward sky comes down
and somewhere out of sight they meet

And somewhere out of sight and out of time
are doctors soldiers jailbirds lovers parents
many grandmas - many flowers
happiness and sadness
many glories many graves