Fens Poems - Poems about Fens

Today

...How was it, have you got a slot
You ordered Lucozade, prawn toasts
And Garibaldi crisps, I thought
Your favourites, have you got those?
It was so hot today, I sat 
Behind closed curtains, overwh...

The Fens

...Snipe and Curlew are skating on the mist
they sing of the water
that sky-water which sways to their songs.

Flat is this land with no coastal margins,
here I am the peak of a mountain
my coated...

The Trickle of Wicken Fen

...Blurred bushes rush by
Brain bends 
Time out far across the fens 
A solitary heron flaps
The pterodactyl lazy loads 
A flyover of long strokes 
Of reed brushes
Eels writhe 
A dog trot...

Stratosphere

...seduction sits in the prepotence
deep blues inviting  
to engulf
in the wading of her fens  
 
without apprehension  
she is slayed  
endorphins exploding in air
fear interrupting of night  
...

Lincoln Cathedral

...From the miles of flatness and the fens

Comes the hill where this Cathedral stands

Everyone can see this floodlit site

When the moon is out and there is night.

I saw it through the window...

Denizens: Prologue - 1

...Part 1 of ?

Clippety, cloppety, clippety, cloppety
All the king’s horses and all the king’s men
mounted for battle in all of their armor; they
rode off so gallantly through moors and fens.

H...

What I'M Doing In Polluted Eastern Cape

...I
Newtown, South Africa, may inspire some day
Through this time here, I must turn senses away
From adults sending kids to buy "loose smokes"
And even ears from women cussing moms, sex jokes! 

...

Medieval Poems Ii

...Medieval Poems



Wulf and Eadwacer
(Old English circa 990 AD)
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

My people pursue him like crippled prey.
They'll rip him apart if he appr...

Once Upon a Countryside

...Once were badgers in leafy dale, 
once were rabbits and foxes too,
once were pheasants in shining copse where cuckoopint and coltsfoot grew.

Once were songbirds in privet hedges, 
once were blu...

Helen's Brick House

...Helen's brick house
was built by her grandpa James
with a specific design in mind:
the front black cross-windows
riminded one of Christ's sorrows;
when the off-white roll shades opened
the neig...

Translation: Wulf and Eadwacer

...Wulf and Eadwacer
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem, circa 960 AD
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

My clan's curs pursue him like crippled game;
they'll rip him apart if he approache...

Wulf and Eadwacer

...Wulf and Eadwacer
ancient Anglo-Saxon poem
loose translation by Michael R. Burch

My clan's curs pursue him like crippled game; 
they'll rip him apart if he approaches their pack. 
It is otherw...

The Land of the Lost

...Come we will an the road is open,
Come we will an the door swings ajar,
The land we glimpsed longing from fens afar,
Shall now be ours to make or mar!

Unto the gate we shall be holpen,
There w...

Spring Reboots

...Oh Lord they come again in brilliant hue
cold ghosts so long thought dead beneath the snow
arise, in flaunting  presence overdue

upon the thatch brown bed - clear hoar frost glow
clings to the ...

Nature Nonsense

...NATURE NONSENSE

In the glens
by the fens
little foxes in their dens.

Among the pines
grow the vines
little squirrels use as blinds

In the brook
under foot
little fish caught by the hoo...

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