Category Archives: people

Stories Untold

Posted on February 19, 2020 by Joanna M. Weston

I was looking at old black and white photos recently, many of them uncaptioned so I had to guess who was who and where they were … STORIES UNTOLD I wonder whose houses stand against smiling skies                 whose eyes close … Continue reading →

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The Way He Went

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

We’ve a couple of friends who have walked El Camino, the pilgrimage from S. Jean Pied de Port in France to Santiago de Compostela in Northern Spain, my husband did this a couple of years ago, and another friend is … Continue reading →

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Lucerne Street Notebook

Posted on March 27, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

I’ve been remembering the village I grew up in on the North Downs of Kent, walking up the road, re-visiting each house that I pass. I’ve used the old spelling of the village, which changed while I was in my … Continue reading →

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Curb-side

Posted on January 23, 2019 by Joanna M. Weston

The dark side of the new year, with us always: those who struggle to keep body and soul together, the poor, marginalized, the unseen – until we really really look, open our eyes to understanding … CURB-SIDE yesterday’s torn newspapers                        … Continue reading →

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This Long Week

Posted on December 26, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

Christmas lasts for a full twelve days, but there’s just one week between Christmas and New Year and I’m never sure whether I should be watching Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, or playing party games … THIS LONG WEEK Christmas bells still … Continue reading →

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Poets Should Write About the Nice Things

Posted on March 14, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

I’ve heard poets talk of the subjects they write about and one said something I have used as the title of this week’s poem. It struck me as an odd thing to say. Surely poets should write about anything and … Continue reading →

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Stories In Line

Posted on March 7, 2018 by Joanna M. Weston

Standing in line at any store, in airports, or bus stations, I watch people, wonder who they are, what they do, and dream up the stories of their lives … STORIES IN LINE in the grocery check-out I notice the … Continue reading →

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An Ordinary Man

Posted on November 9, 2016 by Joanna M. Weston

Remembrance Day is coming up, and I wonder about my father, who died in Normandy, June 1944: what kind of man he would have been if he had survived the war? Was he changed by his experiences of the desert, … Continue reading →

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Self-portrait As A Printer

Posted on October 4, 2016 by Joanna M. Weston

I have been at odds with my printer recently. The only way to get it to function was to uninstall it, and then re-install it. Not the way to get printing done in a hurry! I wondered how it felt … Continue reading →

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Tourist Senryu

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Joanna M. Weston

One of the interesting things about travelling is watching other people, other tourists, how we/they behave in another country, how they/we re-act in crowded or rural situations … tourists . . .                                             the cows turn to watch us ***** suitcases … Continue reading →

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