Quentin's Poetry

My granddaughter, Abigail, then age 12, once described writing poetry as 'tunnelling into myself'. I can't think of a better description. In poetry we are free to use all the resources of language, shape and typography to express our feelings as precisely as possible. That means that the ultimate judge of a poem can only be the poet who has written it. Which doesn't stop poets wanting to publish their work in the hope that others will be able to relate to it.  I hope you enjoy this mini selection from my poetry. It will be changed or augmented from time to time. Click on a title, and have a look.

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. (Lord Macaulay)

Contents

Post Coitum Tristis

Wimbledon Common

For Irené on St Valentine's Day

To Rosamund

The Bible

Ancilla Domini

She was black but beautiful

'Shorts'

Proust

(Copyright note: the poems on this site are the copyright of the author. Permission is given for their use by private persons, or for amateur poetry societies, providing authorship is acknowledged.  Commercial use or reproduction  requires permission from  the author.)

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