two found poems

A Child’s Winter

Cold the house without fire in winter

Midst the winter's snows

When winter winds blaw sharp an' shrill

For all the livelong winter's night

Cold blew the winter air

Cold, cold is winter's blast

Blow, blow thou winter wind

Through winter frost

Wearily blows the winter wind

When the winter snow fell fast

Winter came, and then, alas

Oh then it was winter fairly

Let winter round me rave

And she's over the hills on a winter's night

It's a cold winter's night, my love

It's a cold winter's night, and I must lie alone

When winter blows in sleety showers

The wild winds of winter now sweep o'er the lake

The winter star doth now appear

Smiling winter's frown away

after Child's Ballads

warning

   for Kenny Goldsmith

veering northerly

rising easterly

backing westerly

decreasing southerly

rising westerly

backing southerly

decreasing northerly

veering easterly

backing northerly

veering westerly

decreasing easterly

rising southerly 

decreasing westerly

veering southerly

rising northerly

backing easterly 

KG reading at Morden Tower, AV Festival 2012
a reading enlivened by intermittent roars from the crowd at St James Park