Korkby Lonsdale, north of England, Durham amd Newcastle. (born London) Has lived in Scotland since 1979, in Callander since 2000. Widely published poet in books and magazines, now part retired, former editor of Poetry Scotland and diehard poetry books. Travels to Kirkby Lonsdale regularly and is doing a PhD at Lancaster University Author of a novel about poetry, WILDGOOSE A TALE OF TWO POETS Two poems from Wildgoose may be found on Poemhunter all Sally's poems posted here have been previously published in books, magazines, anthologies, webzines or as part of public projects
Beatiest of beats let me address you
as you America. Let me bless you
charleychaplin poet that you are
like Ferlinghetti spreadeagled in air
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I am not the great John, bold and zany,
many-talented, a fun man, brainy,
brought up in Liverpool, shot in New York
before he had properly finished his work.
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Frost locks the landscape under sun,
silvers the gold of autumn,
deepens hollows in the fields,
sharpens shadows on the mountainsides,
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Black stone soft to carve
beads, ornament, brooches.
Stone, fine and intricate,
to wear, to revel in,
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Gently the woodsorrel and the dove
evoked wide glades of memory
to share my quest across the sea,
a world-floor I could float above,
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