Now I see you waving from a distance your vivid colours lit by occasional sun I remember when you walked with me past the thin cathedral and among fading tombstones You touched me then: I thought we would get closer…
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Writing a poem every day for Lent has proved difficult – which should not be surprising mathematically, as the sum total is roughly the same as I wrote in the whole of last year. But it’s not just the maths….
The church shivers in the cold crouched among the snowdrops slippery in the winter rain Out of time, figures walk among the tombstones, talking of skeletons and saints, dreams and witches And one day you may dance here too disguised…
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I want to start by making a confession. I quite often watch Bargain Hunt on BBC 1. This is largely because it’s shown at lunchtime, when I settle down for my 12.30 sandwich and mug of tea, but I can quite…
Bodies in the cathedral, ashes in the ovens: stations of the holocaust link death with death and responses vary: can you compare one crucifixion with a million nameless executions, or does one contain the other? Do Christians eat up the…
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Two things you could say about Paul Durrant: he gave it everything, and he cared I worked with him for many years, and I didn’t always agree with him. As news editor of the biggest selling regional morning newspaper in…
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I am light I make no bones about it Light fills me It seeped in through cracks in my resolution I breathed it while I dreamed of candles that climbed to the moon and defeated the dark side Light is…
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If 52 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. So says Anatole France, and I’m sure you agree. However, if 52 million people say it, there is a good chance that it will be on…
Something sits in the hills just beyond reach like an imaginary number rooted but unreal the key to it all It lives in the cloud that changes moment by moment slipping from world to world unravelling eternity You can shut…
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There may not have been much about the Lord’s Prayer in cinemas over the Christmas period, but at least there was Star Wars. And if you happen to live in my neck of the woods, there was a bonus: The…