You may recall that this Valentine’s Day, I hosted a Sonnet Sunday here on Experiments in Fiction. This was a celebration of love in sonnet form. I asked you to write a traditional, Shakespearian sonnet on the theme of love and share it with me. This was such a fun event that I have decided… Continue Reading →
Next weekend marks the start of the May Day bank holiday in the UK, while in other parts of the world we celebrate International Workers’ Day or Labour Day. In honour of this, and in recognition of the emergency on planet earth, I will be holding a Sonnet Sunday on 2 May on the theme… Continue Reading →
I have witnessed the transition from Spring into Summer in several different locations. In the UK, the saying goes, Ne’er cast a clout, till May is out. (‘Don’t take your (winter) clothes off until May is over.’) In Catalunya, it’s Pel maig cada dia un raig (‘In May, every day a ray’ – but the… Continue Reading →
It is the season of the heart’s delightlit by the winds of change in chambers darkand sinuous corridors wrapped up in night:somewhere within ignites that fevered spark. Why do we love? With what sense of restraint?What absoluteness and what tortured doubt?Conning the hero’s part, within we faintdisplaying not our inner fears without. No notion nor… Continue Reading →
We seek a Saviour in these troubled timesto lead us to some fabled promised landwe bind our hearts, wrap up our dreams as rhymesare scattered like so many grains of sand upon the windy beach, where yet we waitfor spring tides swell and rise to ease our painand search the far horizon, always lateto reach… Continue Reading →
Come, workers of the world, let us unitein questioning the purpose of our role:to build a future fair, and free, and brightor drudge towards some profit-driven goal? We may feel we are cogs within a wheelwithin another wheel relentlessly such wheels are turned until we barely feelour role within our planet’s destiny. Perhaps we are climbing… Continue Reading →
The celestial Mayday call rings out‘Emergency! Another planet down!’Among the galaxies, the angels shoutwhile gods look on, amused, none too forlorn: ‘One more intelligent species fails the testdetermined upon its own destruction: one day we’ll make one wiser than the rest with power to prevent its own extinction.’ Another planet down, a record scrubbedfrom off the intergalactic… Continue Reading →
As summer leaves behind the springThe days grow ever longerThe leaves are green the birds do singThe sun shines ever stronger I walk along the sandy shoreAnd gaze out to the distant seaI feel the warmth and long for moreThe summer sun has set me free I then ascend a distant hillAnd contemplate a tranquil… Continue Reading →
It is the morning of another yearhere in this temperate European landwhile over in the Southern hemisphereAutumn descends upon the scorching sand. The new-day light entreats me go outsidewhile chatter of the birds also invites;the song of nature echoes far and wideand bids me join this dance of spring delights. Each year remakes itself, old… Continue Reading →
The best of love is shelt’ring form the coldwhen time and tide turn dark and skies grow dim;our hands, hearts and arthritic limbs grow oldyet love’s spark shines as bright as e’er within: remember when the sun of youth was oursyou took my hand and boldly said to me‘If you’ll be mine, then gladly I’ll… Continue Reading →
