by Phil Todd | Mar 26, 2021 | archive
Listen to the raindrops Tapping on the floor Cleaning all the daydreams Whose visions we’ve ignored Thoughts without the fabric To make them come to be Memories of wishes We’ll never come to see Cleansed with lots of hoping And dressed by skies of blue While buried in...
by Phil Todd | Mar 12, 2021 | archive
Mauritius Skies Where are they going? Those clouds in the sky Drifting so gently As they pass me by Are they off to the tropics? To visit their friends While chasing horizons That have no real end Passing each island Without even a sigh Though sometimes they linger...
by Phil Todd | Mar 12, 2021 | archive
A Cuban Sunset A can never tell just what a poem means to other people so I just write them down as they pop into my head and let them decide for themselves… Temptation They spoke of temptation without counting the cost For each indiscretion is an innocence lost...
by Phil Todd | Mar 5, 2021 | archive
It is amazing to watch progress slowly change the landscape around me as I get older with Schools, Pubs etc. being demolished and all manner of countryside being built upon not always I think for the better. Lost History We just sit and watch it As our history...
by Phil Todd | Feb 26, 2021 | archive
Life is like a river With stones to cross its path But just which ones to step upon Can be a mammoth task For some can be quite slippy And some won’t hold your weight But when you’ve stepped upon them By then it’s far too late But this crossing is essential For you...
by Phil Todd | Feb 26, 2021 | archive
In Memory Of A Cloud When you think of me tomorrow, Please do it with a smile For I’m the one who sheltered you From burning rays up high Please think of me as quenching The flowers in their beds. For they were slowly wilting Before my rain I fed And what about...
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