Ben Simpson's favourite poetry, prose
and some of his own writings

Some scraps of poetry: 

• The Cloths of Heaven.....
• Houseman on Ploughing.....
• The learn'd astronomer.....
• Laurie Lee's day....
• Dylan Thomas on life force.....
• The Woodland Mass by Dafydd ap Gwilym.....

My own writing:
Poetry:

•  When Someone Meets An Angel - a poem written for the Celebration of Angels
• Oxford Bicycles - a light hearted dogrel
• Kubla Can - a parody to celebrate a local 'Living Green' event
• Epiphany 2007 - a short poem
• The Journey - a poem for Epiphany 2008
• Uhuru - who pays the price of freedom? - a poem written for Romulus (Wolfson College magazine) - February 2008.
• Little signs (of climate change)
  
• Silver Birches - a poem inspired by an exercise at Carmen Bugan's workshop in April 2008.
• Future Perfect-Future Continuous - a poem for Epiphany 2009
• The Pastoral Visit - a commentary on communication and aging
• Our War Dead - a poem for Remembrance Day
• The Fallen Angel - a poem for Epiphany 2011
• On Bethlehem's Hills - a poem for Epiphany 2012

Prose (short passages):

• Reflections from a river bank - a short, stumbling piece
• The chicken came first
  
• The Ponderer - a school-time incident
• Wisdom and the wise - in search of the meaning of Epiphany

Trivia:

• A Pentelope - Conant Brodribb's little book introduced me to this verse form created by Dillwyn Knox
• Men in Urology - a dubious triolet for the to-i-let