De:Versify: A Second Volume of Poems

By Denny Bradbury

This is the authors second volume of poetry. The poems reflect the need for balance between nature and people and a sometime-forgotten spirituality. As many strive for a greener world, the author hopes that the thoughts behind her poems encourage that sentiment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Feb 11, 2013
• ISBN: 9781481783170

Denny Bradbury

This is the author’s second volume of poetry. The author lives in Buckinghamshire, England with her husband. She has two grown-up children. She is a member of the Bumblebee Conservation Society and also belongs to the Thomas Hardy Society. Her writing is her passion, and she has written novels, fairy stories, and poetry. She was once an air traffic controller and a charity manager, and she is also a graduate of history. Now she is an author. Much of her inspiration comes whilst walking her faithful labrador dog in the fields around her home. She likes to blend an optimistic romanticism with the bleak reality of life in the twenty-first century.

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Published by AuthorHouse 02/01/2013

ISBN: 978-1-4817-8316-3 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-8318-7 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-4817-8317-0 (e)

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Contents

Introduction

Part I   Animal Inspiration

Hare in the Moonlight

Fly Free

Time with My Dog

Bees and Trees

Horses of War

Seagull Takes the Biscuit

Part II   Seascape Inspiration

Wave

Broken in Time

So Grey the Sea

Idle Tides

Purposely Drifting

Sea Changes

Part III   Inspiration from Nature

Stars Tonight

Kingcup and Friends

Wisdom of Trees

Lost Meadows

Winter Soul

Poem for February

Waiting for Blossom (I)

Waiting for Blossom (II)

there and then

Gossamer Green

Part IV   Human Inspiration

Time and Place

Tears

Garden Fete

A Moment Caught in Time

From My Bedroom Window

Withdrawing

Four O’clock

Realisation

Lothario/Lotharia

Man at Bus Stop

Not Diminished

Part V   Love

My Gift to You

Sir Galahad

Forever and More

Summer Cold

Hold Me Gently

Another Year

Sisters (II)

Belonging

Part VI   Other-Worldly Inspiration

Guardian Angel

Spirit (H)

Thoughts from Inside, Spilling Over

Mind Unburdened

The Young Druid Fulfils His Destiny

Water Sprite’s Happy Poem

Garden Nymph

For my family

and all those trying—

in whatever way they know how—

to make the planet a greener

and more peaceful place

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Also by the Author:

Poetry:

A Denagerie of Poems

Novels:

The Reunion

(A year in the lives of five middle-aged friends)

Borvo

(A ninth-century Anglo-Saxon story)

Introduction

This, my second volume of poems, contains thoughts that are inspired by the seasons, our island seascape, animals, diverse people, the oldest orders of belief, and the world as I experience it in the early twenty-first century. Our planet is full of amazing creatures and plant life that we dismiss and ill-treat at our peril. I offer these poems as a collection that reflects the often imperfect balance between humans, animals, and nature.

In the animal-inspired section, ‘Horses of War’ was a direct and emotional response to the stage production of Michael Morpurgo’s War Horse. ‘Realisation’ (in Part IV) was a heartfelt reaction to the Haiti earthquake of 2010. In Part VI, ‘Water Sprite’s Happy Poem’ features the joyful conclusion to one of a series of five separate fairy