Archives: Poets

San Lorenzo

Across the way see San Lorenzo stand

J de S Westbrook on hidden beauties.

Menelaus reflects

The Queen and I meet almost every day

Menelaus takes stock

Westbrook jokes about the novel

Emma Woodhouse was no retiring mouse

Tenbury Wells

Westbrook on love and family.

Waldlied (Forest Song)

Arm in Arm und Kron' an Krone steht der Eichenwald verschlungen,

A fine Swiss poet uses ancient myth.

Der Schwan (The Swan)

Diese Mühsal, durch noch Ungetanes

Rilke sees a metaphor for life and death in the swan on land and on water.

Chanson de Printemps

Les souffles flottant dans les bois en fleurs

A love poem by Marcel Proust

Seven billion and one

Seven billion and one, or give or take

Westbrook on population growth

Propertius’s lucky survival

Strangers in the night

What is that strange spot beneath my arm?

Insomnia and memories of Troy

The Ballad of Edward and Johnny

Two boys they went to work from school

Friendship and loss

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre

Yeats's bleak prophecy after the First World War

Leda and the swan

A sudden blow: the great wings beating still

Leda and the Swan

Sailing to Byzantium

That is no country for old men

Yeats's sailing to Byzantium

The Wild Swans at Coole

The trees are in their autumn beauty

A melancholy but beautiful reflection on change and the passage of time