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--

The Runners in the Fields



Green corn yellow corn stubble field fire
heads drip amidst the doubled grass round
fields through which the runners pass
die and are reborn. Through careless spring
outstripping tares we rose
and gloried in the summer sun
every lane and footpath run
was of our mellowing

In smoky fields the autumn will conceive again
but youth is brief and glories do not stay
you will be forever as today
memory which stirs
when on a day again we see the green
when gold spikelets catch the socks
rank round runners grows green grass
yellow grass stubble field fire


for Gary Roche