Guest Blog Post – Featuring Eric Clarke

August 21, 2020August 21, 2020 ~ EDC Writing/Believing Sight Unseen ~ 7 Comments

For a second week, Esther Chilton has kindly had me as a guest on her blog – this poem (quite long for me) sums up where my short poems come from…

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I hope you’ve had a good week. It’s now time for my guest post. If you’d like to feature as a guest on my blog, please get in touch. I’m looking for stories and non-fiction pieces of up to 1500 words and poems of up to 40 lines. If you can also send me a photo and a little bit about yourself too, that would be great. Please send them to estherchilton@gmail.com

Last week, my guest writer was Eric Clarke, with his poem England – Isolated Views. To read it, click here. And here’s another one from him for you to enjoy:

A Take On Poetry

Eric Clarke

Beaconsfield to Marylebone

Maidenhead to Paddington

Windsor to Waterloo

lines in, and out again

Exeter from all begun

Devon left, half century on

River Thames meandering

fields beside, counties bridged

Buckinghamshire, Berkshire views

English ways, getting there

London, underground…

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Guest Blog Post – Featuring Eric Clarke

August 14, 2020August 14, 2020 ~ EDC Writing/Believing Sight Unseen ~ Leave a comment

My thanks to my good friend, writer, tutor, editor, Esther Chilton for featuring me as a guest on her blog today. My poem ‘England – Isolated Views’ is a compilation of individual short poems posted March through to July – it’s a strange feeling looking back at words written of the moment in times we’re living through.

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It’s Friday and time for my guest post. If you’d like to feature as a guest on my blog, please get in touch. I’m looking for stories and non-fiction pieces of up to 1500 words and poems of up to 40 lines. If you can also send me a photo and a little bit about yourself too, that would be great. Please send them to estherchilton@gmail.com

This week’s guest writer is Eric Clarke. I first met Eric at the London Book Fair a few years ago. We’ve become good friends since then and I’ve watched with interest as his work has deservedly become recognised. Recently, Eric had his first collection of poems, Shorts, published by Potter’s Grove Press. Here’s a little bit more about him:

Eric Daniel Clarke (aka EDC Writing) is an Englishman, raised and schooled in Devon close to its Somerset and Dorset borders…

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Pause, play, stop

August 7, 2020 ~ EDC Writing/Believing Sight Unseen ~ 13 Comments

He’s told today
he’s free to be
as normal as
he can be

He asked again
she said no
she didn’t shield
his feelings

Shielding of the extremely vulnerable in England paused – he played, she stopped.

England… out of mind unknowns

July 14, 2020 ~ EDC Writing/Believing Sight Unseen ~ 10 Comments

Common sense let out the door

back in looking out the window.

Spike and spike and spike again,

cheap clothes, their fault, our own.

Cheers another beer, sand between

their toes, dust to dust, head stoned.

Out of mind, unknowns weep alone.

March into June

June 19, 2020June 19, 2020 ~ EDC Writing/Believing Sight Unseen ~ 17 Comments

It isn’t over till it isn’t

he’ll go out tomorrow

it’ll rain today she said

looking out the window

it hasn’t yet, it will.

Oxford Letters

March 30, 2020April 20, 2020 ~ EDC Writing/Believing Sight Unseen ~ 5 Comments

Letters, remember them
then young, old now, long gone
beginnings, becoming men
tea rooms, halls walked, sober, drunk
led on, showing off, shown up
meant for no one, between two
dissected, analysed, misread, judged
letters, remember addressed to someone
known by, their minds, not you.