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    Field Paths
    Field Paths
    Field Paths
    Ebook72 pages27 minutes

    Field Paths

    By Roger Kendall

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTrafford Publishing
    Release dateJul 10, 2007
    ISBN9781426940453
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      Book preview

      Field Paths - Roger Kendall

      Contents

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      FIELD PATHS

      HEARTS OF OAK

      SAMUEL DEACON (1746 – 1816)

      MOVING THE VICTORIAN COFFINS

      4 X 4S

      BRIG HOLE

      BESIDE LAKE MICHIGAN

      THE FOUR BEARS OF DACRE

      PEREGRINE

      WHEN THE WHALE CAME TO LEICESTER

      REGIMENTAL BAND

      GOATSBEARD

      FLYING THE NEST

      A WEE SKIFF

      DO YOU LIKE BUTTER?

      BRADGATE PARK REVISITED

      DEPARTURES, 1944

      SITTING ON CHAIRS IN THE SNOW

      AN IMPOSTOR

      NEWLANDS VALLEY, OCTOBER 2005

      THE GRAVES AT EYAM

      KAOLIN POULTICE

      MISTY

      LEAF BATTLES IN AUTUMN

      CAT AND MOUSE

      FINLEY

      THE TALL SHIPS

      DANDELIONS

      ON THE BEACH AT FORMBY

      TWO WAYS TO EAT A POMEGRANATE

      STEPHAN PLANKENSTEINER’S CRIB

      FRED HAWKE

      THE KISSING GATES

      MULBERRY TREES AT STRATFORD

      SONNET: WILL SHAKESPEARE, TO ANNE COLD A-BED

      IVY-LEAVED TOADFLAX

      MAKING THE CHRISTMAS WREATH

      SPARROWHAWK

      THE LITTLE DEATHS

      MARBLES

      WHY GIRLS SKIP

      NEWBORN

      SHAW

      SPILLS

      For my family, who gave me every encouragement.

      ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

      Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following magazines, newspapers and books in which some of these poems first appeared: Dreamcatcher 2, 3; Envoi, 134; Countryside Tales, 10; Pen Ultimate, 5; Ware Poetry Anthology 5; Weyfarers, 98; Kent & Sussex Poetry Society, Poetry Folio, 57; Newcastle Evening Chronicle; Ripon Gazette. ‘Misty’ appeared in Animal Antics (Forward Press 2005) ‘Finley’ in Leader of the Pack (Forward Press 2006) and ‘Kaolin Poultice’ in Free Falling – a Collection of Free Verse (Forward Press, 2006).

      FIELD PATHS

      I love to walk the field paths

      Wherever they may run,

      The ones I know (time-beaten hard)

      The faint trail just begun.

      What started them? How long ago?

      A dog fox on the roam?

      Or girls on village errands sent?

      Or boys short-cutting home?

      I love to walk the paths in spring

      Between their cliffs of white –

      Hedge parsley foam on fluted stems

      And stitchwort silver bright.

      When summer rains weight every blade

      And paths are overhung,

      Each flows a brown and muddy tide,

      A little Amazon.

      I watch the paths fill up with leaves,

      The beeches sway and toss,

      And where two pathways intersect –

      A beaten copper cross.

      And when a powdery snow has blown

      Across the yellow grass,

      The footpath sews its thread of black,

      Still guides the feet that pass.

      HEARTS OF OAK

      Three masts against the sky – halyards, sheets, shrouds –

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