Poem of the week

My most recent poem 'I Missed Them All Today' has been voted as 'Poem of the week' today on POETRY RETREAT.COM

Anthology

My poem 'IT'S RAINING' is to be puplished in the Forward Press Anthology
'The Symphony of Life' January 2012. This is one of a number of poems I will have had published in Forward Press Anthologies in the last 18 months.

I Missed Them All Today.

I missed my wife today
while she had to be away.
Realised how lonely I’d be
if she wasn’t here with me.

Without her love and smile
life wouldn’t be worthwhile
I missed my wife today.


I missed my children today
seeing them happily at play.
Sunny days and ice creams
bedtime stories before dreams.

They’ve grown and moved on
now my little ones are gone.
I missed my children today.


I missed my father today
working Monday to Friday.
Taking us out on Saturday.
preaching in church on Sunday.

Taken from us far too young
long before his life was done.
I missed my father today.


I missed my mother today
busily getting through the day.
Dinner cooking, smelling good
afternoon read when she could.

Never a moan, often a smile
looking after us, all the while.
I missed my mother today.

I missed them all today.