beautiful voice

Natalie Merchant singing old poems back into life

Avoncroft Museum Poetry Trail

I have been involved with a project that has resulted in two of my poems being included in a poetry trail. All the poems are inspired by the historical buildings at the museum. The poets all went along and got ideas. It was the stable and the toll house that caught my gaze. It was an interesting starting point wandering through the empty buildings, strange having them grouped together as museum pieces; haunting and poignant.

Details about the trail HERE

Stargazing: NPD 2012

If you don't have an iphone
you cannot hold it up to the sky
so that it translates the mystery

of the constellations, but instead
you could learn them off by heart,
view them through iris and sharp

memory, not dependant upon
battery power just the cold night
air sucked deep into your lungs;

Ursa Major, Taurus, Andromeda,
Lupus, Sagittarius and Hydra.