POTENT POETRY

Our Yellow-Rattled Meadow

Sunlight Dapples our yellow-rattled meadow With my friend and fellow Eric Winsome by my side.

Albert DuNeef’s Sad Lament ‘The Hunt Denied’

There was only stale bread for my supper The black, black mould that had crept upon the crust As rotten as my black, black my heart. For...

The Rhyme of Fishy Pete (1893)

I came to know an octopus When The Sea Gazelle was wrecked. He appeared beside our makeshift raft Then climbed aboard our deck. He was...

Albert DuNeef’s Morbid Ululation ‘Beyond the Weeping Skies of Home’

Beyond the weeping skies of home! Tossed! Alone! Abandoned from the familial embrace. A handsome, slim-hipped hunter Brought low To...

Winsome on the Shingle

By H.R. Pirie. From: ‘Odes to My Little Soldier’ {London: Grenville and Tupes, 1877}, p 29. A meal of clams and sweet green muscles, With...

Extract, ‘That Sundered Sea’ by Sir Mortimer Lowestoft-Gaskil

From ‘Challengingly Long Poems of the Age.’ Edited by Margery Chupps {London: Gosling & French, 1934} Lashed to mast, the Ocean boils,...

Albert DuNeef's Sad Lament 'The Wanderer'

Mary Stoic, ‘Songs from the Old Country’ {NY: Humble Pie, 1855}, p101 Lost in the cave of my sorrow. The sad echoes, the sadness of my...

‘My Handsome Dick’

By H.R. Pirie. From: ‘Odes to My Little Soldier’ {London: Grenville and Tupes, 1877}, p 16. His Apollonian tresses Once smoke against the...