Respect in a civilised society is represented by this communication. Only the species of Homo Sapiens has the concept of its expression. Such a minor gesture, yet it can mean so much to so many. This simple phrase concludes speeches and important transactions. Though just a simple courtesy, it can contain deep emotion. It can […]
Category: Poems
Poems by Nicholas Prosser
THE FRENZY
Decisions on where you’ll be and with whom required, long before the winter clock. Before autumn leaves fall, supermarket shelves were cleared for seasonal stock. Write the lists, rack your brains for inspiration to ask that annual question “what present for you?” Number of cards counted for relations, friends, colleagues, neighbours and the tradesmen too? […]
THE ELEVENTH
There is a just one number that has come to signify more for me than any other, Touching emotions difficult to describe such as the love for one’s partner or a mother. Side by side the double singular digits mark that hour, that date and month to end a war of madness. It is then […]
SOUND OF A SILENT SPRING
When the final curtain falls on that loud harmonious melodic dawn chorus, Is it our greed on resources that empty the draining rivers, or do we just think their bedrock is porous? A startling squawk from the crow, the fox barks to attract its mate. Is there time to save this orchestra of so many […]
ATLANTIC VIEW
They sailed West to find the East. They took their culture, religion and rule, First to trade, then convert and later conquer, In quest of riches, of tobacco, spices and gold. Now the tide turns from that New World to Old. No longer is it the journey that we fear. But what is it that […]
LAND OF MY FATHERS
One last glimpse at that vast expanse, beautiful in all weathers, at low and high tide. Suspended above the Severn’s swirling depths, I peer down on its waters which represent that wide divide. Soon the welcome that marks the border to this similar but different land. Confronted now with dual language signs to preach a […]
HOPE IN A GREY DECADE
In those grey days that only pensioners now remember, When discarded ration books gave way to mortgage application, Still in a boy’s world with little awareness of that other gender, No insight of current affairs, personal finance, or global realisation. Cricket outside the garage doors or sailing toy boats on the shallow pond, We […]
THIS RIVER
Some amble aimlessly along its overgrown banks to rid themselves of life’s anxieties and stress. Others walk their dogs to propel balls on it for man’s closest friend to submerge, paddle and retrieve. A fisherman sits patiently, attaches bait and casts his line on to it to make his catch before release. The adolescents dare […]
A PARADISE THAT IS ENGLAND
Through the high hedges that hug the narrow winding road, Meandering through a colourful tapestry of fields and woods, the river flows, determined to its mouth. A smoking chimney aloof, above the thatched cottage, a tall spire towers above the grey stone church. To the village shop, residents flock for their daily needs, they eat […]