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A failed biologist (like Keats) I am from Hampstead, North London, I lived many years in Reading. Retired after a life in IT I live with my wife, teenaged daughter and miniature Schnauzer near Basel, Switzerland. I have four Grandchildren living in UK.
MeGranddad, Dad, Husband, Poet, programmer.
Interests#Birds, #poetry, #science #statistics #ClimateChange
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Hello! I have been on holiday but I am back to #PoetsonThursday with great news! I have a poem in a wonderful anthology called ‘Glisk and Glimmer; poems about light’ from the inestimable Sídhe Press. It is out today and on Amazon tomorrow:-)
Declaring Spring— Blackcap (sub)song yesterday and today is blue vase day—about four days a year the setting sun illuminates the water bottle as if from within…
My poem this week was from a project I did using titles from poems by Shosetsu, here, @KDonnelly79 is Remaining Geese my poem for @TopTweetTuesday and @blackboughpoems. They will be leaving the UK in a month or so for Greenland, Iceland, Russia. Strong wings, weak winds!

Ivy leaf, frost and moss
Beside the path, besides the way
Stop! Is this the way?

#haiku #moss #poetry #Mosstodon

The snowing has made the oak drop more leaves; ground then snow then golden leaves. It is a leaf-shadow.
When the first #snow of the year makes a #ChristmasCard in your #window it’s #poetry trying to happen
A fresh Shaggy (?) Inkcap #fungus near one of our local Oak #trees
It is thanksgiving and I wondered once why should I give away my #thanks? Such a good thing to keep rushing around inside you, this could be a #love #poem, what say you @poetsonThursday ?
#autumn day at the #beach
Empty of feet, bikinis fallen
leaves from sky from clouds
Just discovered #MastoPrompt and today's #Fox is close to my heart. #ere is my 10 line #Poem on the foxes hunt and a clichèd justification. #AnimalsAsVerbs #Being