Poems

calendar_today June 6, 2018 schedule 1 min read

Life and Work

Change

  A dawn wind ruffles the still black waters of the harbour, sending the boats nudging uneasily at their moorings, startled awake.   As light shivers...

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calendar_today March 26, 2018 schedule 3 min read

Children's poetry

When the war came: Movement 6: Home.

This the shortest segment, as of course it would be. Again, the music here carries the emotion. And we get to know who the narrator...

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calendar_today March 26, 2018 schedule 5 min read

Children's poetry

When the War Came: Movement 5: War

What is completely missing in this segment, really, is the fighting. I simply couldn't find a way to describe it. I wrote a poem about...

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calendar_today March 26, 2018 schedule 6 min read

Children's poetry

When the War came: Movement 4: Dispatches

There had to be a movement for letters home. Those heartbreaking letters from the line , often by people who had never written them before;...

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calendar_today March 25, 2018 schedule 7 min read

Children's poetry

When the War came.. Movement 3: Going to War

This is self-explanatory really. I wanted to capture the apprehension and fear and excitement which might have swept the village after war was declared; the...

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calendar_today March 25, 2018 schedule 3 min read

Abbey Music

When the war came: Movement 2: Work

I didn't want to paint a picture of pre-war England as too idyllic; I'm sure life in a small village like this was pretty tough....

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calendar_today March 24, 2018 schedule 6 min read

Abbey Music

When the War Came

I've decided to publish in this blog the full narration and lyrics of the song cycle we are in the process of writing for the...

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calendar_today March 14, 2018 schedule 2 min read

Life and Work

Strange Angel.

They appear, here and there, in books, in sentimental American series, in films. No feathers, usually, no trumpets just informal.   They save a poor...

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calendar_today February 17, 2018 schedule 1 min read

The World

Apple revisited..

Housing around 13,000 employees, Apple Park, as the headquarters is known, is a futuristic feat of engineering that contains the world’s largest piece of curved...

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calendar_today February 17, 2018 schedule 1 min read

The World

Apple

Housing around 13,000 employees, Apple Park, as the headquarters is known, is a futuristic feat of engineering that contains the world’s largest piece of curved...

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