Poetry Archives - Page 2 of 3

The Unexpected Pleasures Of A Guide To Sydney Rivers

C S Hughes September 22, 2015

Perhaps the most familiar line from Kenneth Grahame’s The Wind In The Willows is also the most misquoted, the misquote...

Olga Hughes April 18, 2015

By Sun, By Sea is a short poem by C S Hughes about memory, sadness, surf and old shoes. It...

C S Hughes March 21, 2015

We all know most writers, instead of making a living, get paid in dreams, hopes and intimations of immortality, but...

C S Hughes March 5, 2015

People fleeing war, bigotry, prejudice, oppression and chaos in their countries of origin, under the United Nations Convention and Protocol...

C S Hughes November 18, 2014

Motion Poems – poems illustrated by video and animation, are certainly nothing new. From cartoon versions of Edgar Allan Poe’s...

C S Hughes October 31, 2014

Conrad Aiken is an American poet, playwright, novelist and essayist. He was born in 1889 in Savannah, Georgia. His parents...

C S Hughes October 15, 2014

Maybe It Was The Wine Maybe it was the wine the way it went to my face and bloomed there...

C S Hughes October 9, 2014

Oh Rascal Children Of Gaza Oh rascal children of Gaza, You who constantly disturbed me with your screams under my...

C S Hughes October 9, 2014

Sorrow’s Quest Entombed within a church of flesh, My shadow seeks the night. A ghost among the living dead, An...

C S Hughes October 9, 2014

oetry is all around us. It is in the music we love, the rhymes we remember from childhood, in the...