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Poems
This collection of poems by Paul Archer are listed by series title, poem title and first line, please click on the title to read the poem.
Natural Causes
Keep Off The Grass
On your right is the neo-realism house...
2:45 am The Wind
Tugging and tearing...
Snail's Pace
It had climbed from the lavender...
Not Swivelling Away
You can set it against the turning of the year's cycle...
Summer in Mallorca
The terrace stripped bare of every shadow...
Lemons On The Lemon Tree
Lemons like lanterns hung in the trees...
Serra de Tramuntana
Most would say the sky is constantly changing...
Mallorcan Landscape with Painter
Pewter crags viridium pines...
One Autumn Day in the Far North Country
"It is Autumn and the fire of red maples...
Winter Fires
I've been burning winter fires...
Midwinter
My breath is held..
Forces of Nature
This garden has a complex geometry...
Gardener's Friend
I was forking the soil...
Summer Collection
This year's summer collection is here...
Westcombe Beach
Hill fields of runnelled emerald...
Seahorse
This blowing of the sea...
Voices of the Rain
The voices of the rain like pedlars in the street...
Archer River
It's not as good once you get there...
Onjuku
The bamboo thicket we cut back...
Okinawa
Swimming back to the beach...
Rose Garden
Straining to catch their words...
The Difference Between a Palm and Me
Would it prefer to scurry out of the way...
Getting Away
I'll hear blame in the incessant voices of the rain...
Human Traces
Ars Moriendi
Death sends us messages...
Dark Days
By 1.20 a.m. the firestorm...
The Return: Wootton Bassett
A Globemaster plane flew low ...
At This Moment
Someone turns the light on...
A New Year Death
Crowds in the stores...
Visiting The Sick
I'd arrive shaking the rain off me...
Silhouette on a Staircase in Swindon
Dark suddenly, the day's circulation choked off...
Christmas Eve, King's College
In the desert of sand and stone...
Sóller Cemetery
The stern command of gravestones...
Saltpool
Two boys by a saltpool...
Hiroshima
Out of what minds came this cruel art...
The Last Haiku
The monitors are silent...
No More Questions
We don't consider any of this...
Time Rewinds
The tape...
It Would Be Real If I Cried
When the boots slammed into his head...
Nairobi Conference
In the comfort of its airconditioned chamber...
XYZ
All beauty can die eventually...
Maid of the Lakes
She had got off the stage in Keswick town...
Signs of Life
Loose-lace Shoes
Here's what happened on my way home...
Airports
We shuffle round Departures...
A Little Italian Place
When people say...
Snowy Morning
Have you taken a grapefruit from the fridge...
Night in a 7-11
Sedate tins...
The Gardener
Rudi came unannounced...
Meeting Geoff in the Plaza
I don't have to sit there long...
She Sang
She sang: like no bird has sung...
Beachcombing
Curious, I lift it from the beach...
Carried on by Crowds
To be carried on by crowds...
Rollerblading Girl
She glides through the crowds...
School Lunch Break
He lies in the sun...
Passage
I can tell she's leaving someone she grew to know too well...
Scriptwriter
Fade in: he makes coffee...
Onsen
Is there a world outside...
A Weekend Break
It was what they wanted, to get away...
Making an Investigation
It's always the smallest of clues...
In his Single Room at the Hotel
After heated accusations...
Tea & Whisky
She stirred the tea...
Rhubarb Kissel
Two sets of handwriting...
Knee-Length Brown Leather Boots
You in your knee-length boots...
Celia
She kept a smart house, even when alone...
Life & Soul
Tonight there's a battle in the skies...
High Tables
In a circle of polished shoes, skirted knees...
Isabella
Your laugh is like the yellow...
Outback
I was never scared...
Bodywork
In your hippocampus...
Not My Type
Women who put men in a velvet box...
Yebisu
Talking about the rock...
Softly Rocks the Heart's Cradle
A collection of haiku-inspired poems.
Faded Blue Flower Pattern
Another collection of haiku-inspired poems.
Sound of Mind
Familia
The man in the sun lounger...
The Far Reaches
Her flesh shrank...
Twenty Four Hours
He swaggers through suburbia...
Crazy Golf
That balmy summer holiday...
Comfort Zones
"The patient is comfortable" reports...
Directions
It's like asking directions in a foreign land...
Thoughts on Consciousness
What is perceived...
Can't Think What It Can Be
It nags at you as you stand...
Teleporting
Late for a meeting and stuck in traffic...
Fragment Of Time
As if it were a diamond that someone rich...
Poetic License
Advice to Poets
Don't drive a car. Dreaming up a poem...
Reading Poems
A poem's licking its way over you...
Stunned By Shakespeare
I'd like to join this gang...
So You Want To Write
Let's start big - imagine the universe...
Flatpack Poem
If this poem came from IKEA...
A Question of Perspective
The plume from an airplane's engines surges over...
The Choice
Come on, you can't stay there in bed...
A Web Poem
is thousands of pixels...
Deaths Of Poets
It's not true that all poets...
Useless
It won't get the washing done...
Jumper
Jumper on the bed. A dead weight...
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