Tag: poem
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Leveret
This is a poem I wrote about 8 years ago when Dad found a baby hare in our garden. Fawny-furred and tawny-eyed, As soft as heather is your silky hide. And such a precious little thing are you And delicate in the same way as glass I am afraid the world in which you bide…
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An Edith Poem
An Edith poem I wrote that doesn’t fit into the book. Peidi was Freddy’s nickname for Edith, I think because it rhymes with Edie, but we’ll never know. The ‘poem about death’ is from Khalil Gibran’s The Phrophet (1923), a minor anachronism But I’m taking poetic liberties. I wrote this after reading a friend’s poetry…
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Danvers
Sometimes when scandalous or tragic things happen, they find their way into local folklore, and sometimes that includes being recorded in song. It’s that type of thing that inspired this poem. It tells the story of Daphne du Maurier’s (13th May 1907 – 19th April 1989) Rebecca (1938), Mrs Danvers being the de Winter’s sinister…
The Hopeful Edwardian 