Poet at Jaybern

A veteran and poet pulls up a sandbag and shares a life of adventure, mishap and dogged determination.

Pages

  • Home
  • About Me
  • Workshops
  • Guernsey
  • Org's*
  • Visitors

Visitors






Free counters!

Email ThisBlogThis!Share to XShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest
Home
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Poet at Jaybern ~ A Guernsey Poet

Poet at Jaybern ~ A Guernsey Poet

Search This Blog

Filter Poems By Topic

  • CRPS (38)
  • Environment (31)
  • Faith (13)
  • Family (8)
  • Furry Friends (15)
  • Home (26)
  • Memories (50)
  • Military (55)
  • Observations (70)
  • Political (11)
  • Writing (13)

Popular Posts

  • Colours
    I wrote this poem for the next Guernsey Poets Open Mic. It is on the subject of 'Colours'. I hope you like it. Colours Phosph...
  • The Pause
    Image Source:   I was in town this morning at 11:00 hrs. This gave rise to the following poem, I hope you like it. The Pause The si...
  • The Weekly Shop
    Walking around a supermarket the other day, I couldn’t help overhear a couple of women complaining vociferously about various items not bei...
  • Pulse Rates
    Military lives are often summed up by two maxims; "Rush to wait" and "Months of boredom punctuated by a few minutes of i...
  • A Lucid Moment
    When I started this poem I intended to examine the frustrations of growing old, losing one’s physical abilities and being left with only me...

Please Follow This Blog.

My Blog List

  • Vale Ramblings
    Beyond Death - Beyond Death. I have occasionally tried to understand something that has stayed with me for nearly sixty years: how can losing my father suddenly at th...
    5 days ago
  • Here and Now
    Marking Time - I haven’t thought about this blog in a long time, which is only obvious when I see that my last post was 4 years ago. There is a student at the yoga stu...
    4 weeks ago
  • Pen to Poetry Guernsey
    - Hello Every one. Having seen that Poets United is now archived I followed the link to Poets and Story Tellers United. I admit to writing this in 2018 and...
    1 year ago
  • Cro-Magnon Poetry
    Ghost Key - You still have my key Every night I hear your ghost creep Up to my bedroom But never you
    2 years ago
  • Bard at Bay
    LAST POST - *I've can't remember which year I launched Bard at Bay but, according to the stats, I've posted just short of 1,000 poems or short stories since then. * ...
    2 years ago
  • Guernsey Poets
    RIP Guernsey Poets (2016-2022) - It’s time to put you out to grass my friend It’s a shame this is the way it had to end But it looks as if the muse has dried up - Contributions have tric...
    3 years ago
  • Rhymes from the Rain
    The Best I Could Do - I never deserved you... So your closest friends said But those letters I sent you They must never have read The words I strung together Were the thoughts ...
    7 years ago
  • Rambling Prose
    Halloween... - It's funny how some traditions live on. Halloween can be traced back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain which marked the end of summer and th...
    7 years ago

Copyright ©

© John Buchanan and Poet at Jaybern, 2010-2013.

Unauthorised use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this blog’s author is strictly prohibited.

Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to John Buchanan and Poet at Jaybern with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

Subscribe To

Posts
Atom
Posts
All Comments
Atom
All Comments
Unless otherwise stated, all poems on this blog are written and owned by John C Buchanan. Watermark theme. Powered by Blogger.