These are recent poems and never published before
The first is The Girl in the Dress of Pure White Lace. Almost semi-autobiographical but just one lovely lady I let slip out of my life. So the final paragraph is pure wishful thinking.
The second poem The Machines Won is about something that bothers me daily. the old way of life has been lost.
The third poem is New Jerusalem. No green and pleasant land for Hertford.
Let There Be Dragons – Protecting the old way
Forbidden Fruit – a time when things that we weren’t supposed to do were so much better for that fact.
Circles – Another failed love affair but fun whilst it lasted
Christmas – a festive tale for our times. The last two lines are deliberately ambiguous.
Football – a traditional type sonnet about football and how it was in the good old days.
The county town – a visitor’s disappointment at not being able to find Hertford Castle
Ghosts – all those shops and traders you may or may not recall
New Year – a poem for 2025 as the old year draws to a close