When you are young there is a place For regret. The past is close And sometimes can be remedied. With age we grow bitter, recall What we...

Out of the mind's mud runs A narrow road through grassland. Behind colourless trees, Riflemen point nervous guns. At the vanishing point...

Clearances? Don’t like the term, a Highland chief protests in chiselled English voice. The English did not clear Scots out. They went...

In circumstances such as war, Patriots white lies deplore. They speak sincerely from the heart (In war there is less need of art) Pride...

Warsaw 1981 Friends, the curfew lifted, Celebrate a truce In churches candlelit This Christmas Eve. Hands grip the backs of pews, A...

Something there is that does not like a wall (Robert Frost) The writings on the wall at Checkpoint Charlie, now East Berliners stroll...

Regard this tea pot with great caution It hides its history calmly steaming With its teacup and its milk jug Tea endorsed by Dr Johnson...

Argy Bargy Dear Sir, Why not let the Argentines have one Falkland Isle and we the other? (Billy Hill aged 6) Frigates knife the swell, a...

The nature of the sickness found Ulysses What is the answer …? Does Fear hold the world in balance, Intelligence inform the will? Do we...

Below the old church tower Where masons, time and weather Repair the scars of war, Centuries of flaking slabs Huddle, lean and whisper....

The chanting drowned the city noise, Challenged the busy town. The marchers stopped, formed lines, But the busy town rolled on. They held...

Sailors from the crow's nest peering In Hans Schlottheim's Golden Galleon Where chimes the time at every quarter And trumpeters announce...

On a quiet road this April day We park the car and thread our way Through trees which overgrow a scene Old photos tell us once has been...

Behind the curtain of the trees the throb of drums conveys a meaning, curse or welcome who can say, drums of war or peace or prayer...

You should dump the man named Trump, Make him jump in the nearest sump. When he's on the stump and starts to pump The heart goes bump and...

Churchill wanted Sutherland to paint upon his scutcheon glory, power and celebration of a life, of an empire, of a land. But the painter...