A Grey Day's Story

This is an account of the mental illness I suffered more than forty years ago. It is more explicit than anything else I have written.

Longer Poems I Like

This is intended as an extending collection, in no particular order, of those longer poems that I have liked. As for my 'Short Poems I Like', their truth is in their beauty, if not always in their sense or sentiment.

More Short Poems I Like

This is intended as a further collection, in no particular order, of the short poems that I have liked. Their truth is in their beauty, if not always in their sense or sentiment. For those who dip into it, I am hoping with this personal anthology to convey something of the pleasure poetry has for so long given me. Lik...

Short Poems I Like

* There is an alphabetical index at the end (including authors). This is intended as an extending collection, in no particular order*, of the many short poems that I have liked. Their truth is in their beauty, if not always in their sense or sentiment. For those who dip into it, I am hoping with this personal antholog...

Family Folklore, in my Father's Voice.

Here my father, born in 1900, reminisces on people and the funeral trade in Belfast during his own and his father's time.

Memories

Recollections from earlier years of family and friends; and of some observed events, mainly in a troubled Northern Ireland.

The Pity of War

"My subject is war and the Pity of war. The poetry is in the Pity". Wilfred Owen

Die Laughing

True humorous poem anecdotes from the family funeral and wedding trade. If you like any please consider giving it a vote. It would be a great encouragement.

Poets and Poems

This is a collection in which I choose a poem I like, not necessarily a representative one, and add a short biography of the poet

Behold The Man*

This is mainly a five part idiosyncratic reflection on the life of Jesus of Nazareth; someone whom many people with little time for religion still find attractive. It is mostly from a talk I gave in 1988 while visiting a church in Pennsylvania. Please make allowance for this context in what I have written. I am not tr...

Poems of Youth and Age

At seventeen I wanted to write poetry, at thirty-two I had to write it and at seventy-three I was startled to write it. These poems, serious and humorous, that I am posting are the result. If you like one, please consider giving it a vote, by clicking on the 'star' below the poem. It would be a great encouragement t...

More Snippets

More bite sized oysters of fun with an occasional pearl of wisdom.

Snippets

Bite sized oysters of fun with an occasional pearl of wisdom. Some were written to amuse my grandchildren or young friends; some just to amuse me!