Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Leslie Bricusse - d. October 19th 2021

Who can take a story,
gild its wings with charm,
burnish its quintessence
till it glitters in the eye,
turn choruses to poems
of the playground, of the 
cradle, of the screen?



Monday, 18 October 2021

Alan Hawkshaw - d. October 16th 2021

Play him out with brightness,
with stings and jingles, tunes 
and not-quite-tunes. Sing him
without words in little anthems
of the inconsequential world.




Saturday, 9 October 2021

Rick Jones - d. October 8th 2021

The moving finger plays 
and, having played,
moves on to a place 
where songs are whimsy,
angels are made of paper 
and life is just a length of string.