All I wear is purchased here, the sizes fit, no change to drop or raise the hem. Socks, underwear, trousers, shirts, pullovers, jackets, suits and coats, yes all of them, Carefully selected, imaginatively presented, reasonably priced, theirs is not just food. They contribute to furnish and dress my home, items for every room and mood. […]
Category: Poems
Poems by Nicholas Prosser
ALDWICK GREEN
Relieved and refreshed, it drinks the moisture from a heavy shower of long awaited rain. Even more vivid now than before in the colour that provides its name, Once a temporary home for those waiting to fight a war that did not come, Now a haven for wildlife as the hooting owl waits for the […]
HOME SWEET HOME
Spent time abroad with those so dear, I heard “How’ya” and “All systems go”. Oceans and seas we crossed to see them in Dublin and in cold Chicago. Time now to apply the handbrake, slow down, for life is not a race. My Yuletide season of travel is over, it’s time for me […]
FIRST DAY & NIGHT IN THE AFRICAN WILDERNESS
Past smiling faces, some walked some ran, happy Kenyans, some with heavy load, We passed them as we drove the Alpha Sud along the black smooth tarmac road. We turned West pass shanty town Narok, felt the bumps now of the hardened track. At last, a wilderness stretched before my eye, adventure […]
I AM 70
Today, together we meet to remember, so many good times before those fond memories fade. To celebrate with you my family my friends at the start of this, my 7th decade. My first ten years, I grew, I swam, played games and recited my 12 times table. In my teens, I learnt about life, the […]
THE RED BUS OF PROMISE
All Aboard All Aboard this return red tour bus, from Europe only one way. Don’t listen to Number 10’s D.C. they’ll be an exit there, will she jump from that fence? I think she May. Ignore them all, The City of London, Bank of England, entrepreneurs, academics and C.B.1. Asia’s in our sights now, no […]
THE FORTIES
Expected for years, so long awaited, some time before my parents met. First the phoney war after the declaration when all seemed normal and yet, Then they fell, aimed first at cities and ports, both far and near. One missed the railway station to hit our church, find courage now, not fear. Call up came […]
Tribal Divisions
The impact of one vote at the polling station has caused a lasting and damaging impact on our society to create two distinct and divided “tribes” between, on the one hand, those who voted to remain in the European Union and, on the other, those who wanted to leave. Though it’s nearly two years since […]
A WALK IN THE PAST
Last Monday I returned to a place I had not visited for more than 60 years. To get to the location, I walked from a car park in Bushey Park through Hampton Court Palace grounds to the Thames, along the embankment as far as Surbiton to return to a location I had not been to […]
FLIGHT TO THE DARK CONTINENT
Departure scheduled for 22.00 hours this flight was just one hop, With cheap and cheerful Kenyan Airways, booked from a London bucket shop. Updated on jabs, fainted as usual, who told me it wouldn’t hurt? I travelled with her and he was to follow in hot pursuit via Frankfurt. Delayed at Heathrow till the early […]