South Chingford Poetry

  Welcome to the South Chingford Poetry Blog! If this is you first visit, then you may wish to  view the preamble  first, to see how and why the blog was developed. If you have visited before, you may prefer to  proceed directly to the list of poems  available for reading. Some people prefer to listen to poems being read out to them, rather than reading them, so recordings have been added in some cases (the links are at the beginning). Navigation through the blog is entirely via hyperlinks, which in general appear as blue text. Just click on these to follow where they lead (on a computer, the cursor shape changes to a hand when you hover over a link). At the end of each poem, there is a "RETURN TO LIST OF POEMS" hyperlink, which facilitates moving from reading or listening to one poem, to another. Thank you to all the contributors for allowing me to post their work. Enjoy!                                                                                            Updated 21st

The Fight Unfurling, mists release - Within a Sea of Time! Swiftly forwards - Tranquil and turbulent waters of Lives. North moves Opening sores, wounds of sorrow - Healing strives. Gusting through its chill Happiness prevails Acts as sails - It bears no ill will. Laughter arises from the South - Breathtakingly, skimming across hungry sea mouth. Westerlies pushing love out full on the tack! Easterlies blow hope And bring it back! On course ! The journey occurs Through misted blurs. What? Impossible to achieve? Allowing us to breathe? If only we believe. Beverley Gill April 2022 RETURN TO LIST OF POEMS