Gloaming Reveries: Poetry Collection

By Jenny Hu

"Gloaming Reveries" is a collection of poems by a British Chinese scientist-turned-poetry lover, Jenny Hu. In this debut anthology, she writes as a mother, a daughter, a wanderer, a well-wisher, a voice for the weak, a visionary. This blend of love, vicissitudes and reflections is for the days when you feel ennui and for the days in which things

• Language: English
• Publisher: Jenny Hu
• Release date: Oct 8, 2023
• ISBN: 9781805412809

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Poetry collection

Gloaming Reveries

Poetry collection

Gloaming Reveries

Jenny Hu

July 2023

Copyright © 2023 by Jenny Hu

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner except for the use of quotations in a book review.

978-1-80541-279-3: Paperback

978-1-80541-280-9: eBook

For my loving husband Xuyu

and my daughters Angel and Olivia

Acknowledgment

I am grateful to my English teacher Megan who has been teaching and giving feedback in my writings. To many different people whom I met in poetry group for inspiration, encouragement and discussion. To my beloved family, my husband Xuyu for being a constant and untiring audience and my daughters Angel and Olivia for their lovely illustrations to embellish those stances. And special thanks to my publisher (Publishing Push London) who have transformed my writings into a printed book.

Contents

Acknowledgment

Proem

1. Home

2. Would you believe?

3. Hope

4. Summer stroll under the Magdalen Bridge

5. Birds

6. The moon is a hesitant flake

7. To my dahlia

8. Bubbles

9. The lady locked in sorrow

10. Fight for your homeland

11. If

12. Cat story

13. For the memory of past emptiness

14. Rousham Garden

15. My tribute to the Queen

16. When the Scottish bagpipe’s calling

17. City foxes

18. The moment of storm

19. Old bookstore

20. When I’m old

21. Of early autumn

22. Autumn night

23. Evening walk in oak woods

24. Seven pillars of wisdom

25. Let’s see the sea

26. This morning is windier

27. When Mimi sits beside me

28. The garden in early October morning

29. A Welsh folk tale for October

30. Soul cake

31. To my invisible father

32. Story

33. An old lady

34. Autumn song

35. First frost

36. The will of the werewolves

37. In a green and pleasant land

38. Then and now

39. Sing in rain and sing in shine

40. Spring in the garden

41. Hello, spring

42. My city at its indelible back

43. To my city

44. Christmas tree

45. Those old days

46. Listen