Up on the chalklands

it has rained all day

but the evening sun is out

and has set the ancient stones

glimmering in its cooling rays

reminding me

nothing lasts forever

not temples

not civilisations

not rainstorms

Welcome to my blog, ‘Lea’s poetry’, a cunning title that fairly accurately describes what you can expect if you decide to delve deeper.

I have been writing poetry since my student days and have compiled my work into a number of anthologies based broadly on a particular theme. In this blog, however, I have just gone for variety with an addition each day – sometimes more than one if for example I have selected short poems or haiku for that day.

This is as far as my planning has got me for the present. Hopefully it will evolve in even more wondrous ways, once I get to grips with it all.

Thank you for reading thus far and I hope you enjoy the contents that follow.

Lea

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— Oscar Wilde.

I love the written word, derivations and meanings, and gain great pleasure out of fashioning them into poems, the occasional article and even the odd sketch.

I have been writing since I was in the sixth form and really wish I had studied English Lit rather than Geography – a change of direction, you could say!

I have made one or two attempts to get my work published to reach a wider public and raise funds for charity but without much joy. So I have decided to at least try to make it available to friends and family and a blog is my chosen vehicle for getting there.

I have written poems on a wide variety of themes, from political comment to religion, comedy to climate change, relationships to social issues, travel and poems for children.

I hope that as I get onto this more my blog will improve with the use of images and audi

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