Gerald Parker : Writing

Driving down the Hill

Driving down the Hill

A Poem by Gerald Parker


As I drive down the hill, the reservoir comes into view. Today the surface is a silvery mirror over ice cold water, favoured by the moon at ni..
Remembering

Remembering

A Poem by Gerald Parker


Best friends at Christmas we'd meet at the Half Way House but not anymore
Knife Crime

Knife Crime

A Poem by Gerald Parker


I didn't hear the helicopter in the nightmy wife didand she heard voicesI was late coming downstairsin my speckled maroon pyjamasfrom an M & S out..
Gradations of Man

Gradations of Man

A Poem by Gerald Parker


My two dogs sit cosily next to me,their eyes fixed on The Irishman. Itseems I have a soul but they don't.I start to wonderat which gradation in our Ma..
Eternal Silence

Eternal Silence

A Poem by Gerald Parker


When I was a child, I made a cannon out of a lipstick tube mounted on a wooden carriage, stuffed it with gunpowderfrom a penny banger and fired a v..
Fled is that Birdsong (second version)

Fled is that Birdsong (second version)

A Poem by Gerald Parker


There are some who get excited when they hear a bird on a bough in the evening, singing a song dinosaur cousins did a dance to, composed aeons..
Fled is that Birdsong

Fled is that Birdsong

A Poem by Gerald Parker


There are somewho say birdshave memories,that some flyacross the worldto sit out wintersomewhere warm,then they rememberthe way back home.They say bir..
Vacant Possession

Vacant Possession

A Poem by Gerald Parker


Slam!Off to work, the young coupleleave the wall-to-wall niceness in charge.Goodbye, for now,to the essential pictures in the hall,with its past of ot..
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (sanitised version)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci (sanitised version)

A Poem by Gerald Parker


T'was a bitter chill morntwixt fall and start o' wint',the last of the icy leaveswere falling clump, clumpon't foul and filthy groundoutside my bijou ..
La Belle Dame Sans Merci (unsanitised version)

La Belle Dame Sans Merci (unsanitised version)

A Poem by Gerald Parker


T'was a fbitter chill morn twixt fall and start o' wint', the last of the icy leaves were falling clump, clump into the leaden bucket wherein I b..