Fans of “Marlow Murder Club” may recognise this beautiful bridge over the Thames at the bottom of Marlow High Street. Designed by a brilliant engineer, a pioneer of suspension bridges, William Tierney Clark, it was a prototype for a massive bridge he designed to span the Danube in Budapest. What a wonderful feat of civil … Read more
Some years ago, I saw an innovative interpretation of Charles Dickens’ The Railwayman. This story emerged with that as a tangential inspiration, alongside some real history about forbidden love. : THOSE WHO LOVED The familiar thud. The jolting of my body on the brittle, iced grass. It has ever been so, and it hurts so … Read more
If you look up to the large grey slab on top of this building which was put up there a long time ago, you would learn that the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once lived here, briefly. He was running away from his debts. You certainly did not want him as a customer. The headline on … Read more
Screeching falsetto Disco beat boom guitar twang I can dance all night! : : First published (as E Rogers) in Petals of Haiku: An Anthology of Haiku, edited by Gabriela Marie Milton, Published by Literary Revelations LLC ISBN 979-8-9875548-9-0 : Photo: King of the turntables, Vernon Kay, at Pub in the Park, Marlow, UK, May … Read more
Whispering, sparkling Cascade of drops from black rocks Greening the soft moss. : : Photo: Moss, Lake District, UK.
The theme “The Clock Strikes” just had to trigger thoughts of the Cinderella fairy story, still one of the most popular for pantomimes. This was the first of my re-workings of Cinderella, which owes a lot to the 1930s country house crime novels of Agatha Christie. : THE CLOCK STRIKES Ella was getting nervous. “When … Read more
Petals gold with cheer Face that feeds a hundred birds Long, strong stem swaying. : : : Photo: Detail from Sunflowers T-shirt from the National Gallery, London, UK. From the painting “Sunflowers” by Vincent van Gogh.
June 2023 As a child in the 1960s, I loved the humorous poems about cats in Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats by a poet called T.S. Eliot. From these brief lines, you can get a flavour of the delightful images conjured up for children: “Jellicle Cats wash behind their ears,Jellicle dry between their toes.” … Read more
Pardon? What? Sorry? Reach into my muffled world. Share my loneliness. : : : First published (as E Rogers) in Petals of Haiku: An Anthology of Haiku, edited by Gabriela Marie Milton, Published by Literary Revelations LLC ISBN 979-8-9875548-9-0
Carefree blood-fed grassAncient murders fester deepChildren play. Ghosts weep. : : : Photo: The site of the bloody Battle of Tewkesbury which took place in 1471 in the War of the Roses.
