Monthly Archives: July 2014

Ode for a Birthday Boy                                                  Thanks to The Beatles Perce,  you’ve grown older, losing your hair, … Continue reading →

Scaffolding       Seamus Heaney Masons, when they start upon a building, Are careful to test out the scaffolding;   Make sure that planks won’t slip at busy points, Secure all ladders, tighten bolted joints.   And yet all this comes down … Continue reading →

SONNET 116    William Shakespeare Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no; it is an ever-fixed mark, … Continue reading →