Peter's Poems: Poetry from a Christian Gp

By Dr Peter D Campion

Peter’s interest in poetry writing began 17 years ago when his first grandchildren were born, and is prompted by emotional experiences, tending to focus on medical, religious, family and nature themes.

Peter was born in 1946, now aged 74. He went to Southend High School where he gained an open exhibition to study Medicine at Pembroke College Oxford. After four years at Oxford he went to the London Hospital Medical College and then to Great Ormond Street, where he studied Paediatrics. He decided on a career in General Practice and became a trainer, then lecturer and finally Professor of Primary Care in Hull.

Always having a strong Christian faith, Peter has been an active member of his local Church. He has four children and eight grandchildren and has enjoyed travelling with his wife Janet, particularly to the east coast of Scotland.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse UK
• Release date: Sep 6, 2020
• ISBN: 9781728354194

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Contents

Baptism (R)

Sunk (N)

An Ageing Disciple (R)

Parousia (R)

To Luke (R)

The other, not good, Samaritan (R)

On Psalm 84 (R)

The Ethiopian Civil Servant (R)

My wife has cancer (M)

Painful prayer (M, R)

Blue sky (N)

Carnoustie beach (N)

Miscommunication (M)

Concert sonnet (M)

On the unpredictability of life, reflecting on the Resurrection of Jesus (R, M)

Death of a refugee (M)

Delayed Arrival (M)

Discovery (R)

Do not go fearful into that dark night (R)

Epidemiology (M)

food bags (M)

Giverny (Monet’s Garden) (N)

Heligan (N)

Let the children (R)

Manchester to Doha from a window seat (N)

New words (for Jacob, aged 2) (F)

Night Waves at Carnoustie (N)

Norway reflections (N)

Obese, a sonnet to myself (M)

Sonnet to a block of wood (N)

Open Gardens (N)

Peter, do you love me? (R)

Poem for Wilberforce* (M)

Prostate cancer (M)

To Rebecca (F)

Family gathering (F)

The Interpreter (M)

The Reunion (M)

The well (R)

Walk on Carnoustie Beach (N)

Like a dove (R)

Saviour (R)

Holyday (N)

An African Prince (R)

Autonomy (M)

A restoration project (N)

Writing a sermon (R)

Transformation (R)

Tides (N)

Four Haiku (U)

Anticipatory grief (M, F)

Going uphill (R, F)

Asylum (M)

Drunk (M)

Sonnet on the weather (N)

An anaesthetic incident (M)

Deaths during April 2014 (M, R)

Spring garden (N)

A tissue bank for ME (M)

My new Honda Jazz (F)

Not funereal, but transformational (R)

What it might feel like to be an asylum-seeker (M)

Pentecost (R)

Doctoral dissertation (M)

First aid course (M)

The Waiting Room (F, M)

Capernwray Hall – a tribute (R, F)

Ankle thoughts (M)

Preface

This is the first time I have written a preface, so bear with me! My guides are the many prefaces I’ve read. The best ones seem to explain the book, perhaps the author’s reason(s) for writing it, perhaps how they structured the book, possibly even plans for a follow-up volume! I will try to emulate these, so here goes.

I only started writing poetry in 2005, the time when our children, now married, began to produce grandchildren for us, and also a time when my wife Janet and I both got to know a lovely refugee couple from Sudan. She had earlier migrated from Ethiopia, where she had been brought up a Christian. He of course was a Muslim. These