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RIVER From aquifers and seeping wells ageless drips accrued like gold then springing forth, untrammeled, free a river nascent bubbles bold, set to run through guiding lands learning, learning every inch flowing seawards,...
A quirky little reflection on Christmas and its meaning… CHRISTMAS GHOST It was the night of the party, the Big Band’s Christmas bash, and my wife was a principal player:...
FIT FOR PURPOSE I remember Martha, homesteading homely Martha; her wondrous happy calm mixed with fortitude and wellie boots. And then there was Gordie, her good old boy, always ready with...
Another beautiful poem from local writer Alan Martin, with thanks from Pembrokeshire.Online… VALE I could settle right here, like alluvia, in this slow paced verdant vale, where the river wanders, and events unfold in...
Reflections on another time… City skins rule OK? The terse message told of an uncompromising tribe who scrawled it on buses, bus shelters and buildings across the metropolis. Skinhead brutalist fashion was at its...
FIFTY METRE NEWS Highly transmissable, this blight of homely airs that leaks from my radio, on the hour, every hour, if I am not lightning fast; the dreadful news in morbid repitition. Gloom enumerated,...
In one issue of Raven’s Bread, a newsletter for those interested in the solitary life, Wood B Hermit is pictured standing in front of an office that issues various permits and licences. His eyes...
By Alan Martin Surprised, yet again, by autumnal torpor, and, intent on understanding, I settle to observing rain, and the consequent habits of snails, and the number of blackbirds that take to my lawn, with...
A Quaker friend told me that he coped with his very busy life by keeping his thoughts simple, but I just do not have the perceptual agility to handle any barrage of complications. I...
Sarah the Furze lived in a two-room cottage, engendered of rock, as bare as a cave, that stood on the edge of a heathery hill on the West Coast of Wales. The slope led,...
Environment / Film & Theatre / Outdoors
Wild Pembrokeshire with David Gardner: Starlings – 1
December 21, 2020
