Listen to The Salt Sea Winds now – by pressing on the link below.

Where salt sea winds make their eerie sounds

High on the shore, a beached starfish lies rigid in the sun,

Chalky cuttlefish lie beside a shiny skate egg husk.

Rolled over in the palm of my hand its hard cold surface

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Listen to A Widow’s Weeds now – just  press on the link below.

A Widow’s Weeds 

Mrs. Howell had always lived in the attic

A tiny room with a high bed,

I held the dish up to the skylight

Sixty years ago

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Listen to Ann’s poem The House in Highgate now – just press on the link below.

The House in Highgate

Peter Pan had a lot to answer for!

We spent half our lives on the stairs,

Listening to the chip-chip-chipping

Real boredom had us mimicking

Auntie advanced demanding apologies.

How I loved that house.

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Listen to Ann’s poem Granny’s Corset now – just press on the link below.

Granny’s Corset

Push open the door and enter her room

Grandma, propped up with pillows,

Time to cram her into her corset.

I help her into her flowery frock,

She glides down the staircase ready

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Listen to On The Fiddle now – just press on the link below.

Playing the fiddle

With over painted mouth

He tempts and teases

Later he waits for the bus

In his tiny attic room

Time for a beer and to disappear!

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Listen to The Fall of the West Pier now – just press on the link below.

Rumbling crushing crumbling

Two giant orange crab like cranes

Flimsy metal window frames

A huge tower of steel and glass

“Doesn’t it look tidy now?”

Poem on youtube with film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNfohzeD7LU

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Listen to Ann’s poem called Weaving Spells now – just press on arrow on this site.

He was a magician to us

Ours spent his days

He was always engrossed

We would clink through the chaos

Our faces shone with shy smiles

We lived at Gran’s

A soldier

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