by Peter Marshall | May 10, 2021 | News, Poems
A poem by performance poet Emma Ireland from Derby, East Midlands, England, inspired by my book ‘Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism’. She says she has never been the same after reading it. ‘demand the impossiblethe stupendous, the...
by Peter Marshall | Dec 4, 2017 | Poems
I said after breakfast in the ‘Rumi Hotel’ in Konya to a Sufi from Birmingham in England: ‘The reason why Rumi is so important today is because he taught tolerance and love.’ Looking from the balcony at the rain sweeping across poet’s tomb and the roofs of the town,...
by Peter Marshall | Mar 12, 2015 | Poems
The past is history.The future is a mystery.Today is a gift.It’s called the present.
by Peter Marshall | Feb 23, 2014 | Poems
In early Celtic poetry, there was no gap between human beings and the rest of the natural world. With the coming of Roman Christianity and Western philosophy it was thought that humans were separate because of their soul or reason. A famous Celtic poem identifies the...
by Peter Marshall | Feb 12, 2014 | Poems
High among the pine needlesbuilt out of spare planks and driftwood,I lie lazily in the shade.Its spiral ladder is rough-hewn. Its trapdoor is held by a hinge of bent nails.Sturdy pine trees creep upharsh mountain rocks.Cool breeze gently caresses the skin. I hear the...
by Peter Marshall | Jan 29, 2014 | Poems
This poem was written last autumn during my voyage along the south Turkish coast in my small yacht “Celtic Gold”. Aperlai Creek, southern Turkey Quiet and calmunder the juniper bush,sun and shade and stones,sea lapping on the pebble shore. Fish among the...
