Greenlane Poetry

All Saints 3pm
Assisted Sight-seeing
At the Town Station
Bad Day
Bar des Sports, Charly-sur-Marne
Before and After the Watershed
Bucket List
Call to Witness
Carte Postale
Clerk of Works
Cricket at the Mill
Curious Meeting
Dedication
Dog in the Night
Easter Saturday at Festubert
Fargate
Fargate-duplicate
First Light
Force Nine
Forge Island
Furnaces
Ghosts
Grand-dad Smith
Half Empty
Harraga
In Glen Howe Park
In Provence
Incident
Kilner's Bridge
Lady
Last Train
Lilacs
Long Time Ago
Magpies
Milennium
Mungy Lane
North Line
Nurses
Outfield
Painting By Numbers
Patriots
Per Ardua
Per Ardua
Pioneers
Poor Pierre
Release
Rememberings
Romeny
Routine Visit
Runner
Sawn Moor
September
September Song
Solstice
Spring Training
Students in Crookesmoor
Terminus
The Don at Swinton
The Festive Season
The Hawk in the Tree
The Lavender Feast at Saullt
The Runners in the Fields
The Seasons
The Unpturned Chair
Treatment Days
Trips to the Seaside
Up Train
Valley Mist
Vendanges
Victory Gardens
Watten-Eperlecques
West Wind
Weston Park
What Love Is
What Three Words*
Winthrop Park

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Bucket List



I will gaze on the great restless sea
and talk with the wintering birds
I will stride over snow-powdered lea
and strive with inadequate words

I know that the sea will not fail
and the birds will tell me no lie


The badger will not leave the field
/still hold the sett

...and the ivy will bring down the tree
The ash tree will perish thereby
but the beech and the oak will not yield