by Peter Marshall | Dec 8, 2024 | News
All my family Is coming down to Devon for Christmas. They are my son Dylan – Head of Psychology at at a grammar school in Kent – and his wife Myla (from the Philippines) and their two children Lottie and Johnny together with my daughter Emily- poet and...
by Peter Marshall | Dec 5, 2024 | Poems
We of late have had snow and storms Now it is calm with gentle winds and flat sea. I sit on a bench watching The gentle water trickle down a fountain In a municipal fishpond. Large red fish glide gently by, Insects play in sunlight Hatched out of season By the warm...
by Peter Marshall | Dec 5, 2024 | Poems
Groove When you are on your boat And the wind is broadside When the sails are well set And the ‘slot’ between the foresail And the main sail is right, And they are set at the same angle, The boat sails itself. The rudder quivers in your hand Like a feather. You are...
by Peter Marshall | Dec 5, 2024 | Poems
Hard work in the salt pans What with the white glare Of the sea salt laid in fields The men bowed over with their large shovels And the girls driving the donkey trucks. His grandfather worked all his life under the glaring sun. His grandson aged seventeen Began work...
by Peter Marshall | Dec 5, 2024 | Poems
I lived in the sea I moved from water to field I dried under the sun I enabled war and trade They call me white gold I am sea salt.
