David Lewis Paget : Writing

Birdsong

Birdsong

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


There lives a poet beyond the trees But all that he writes is pain, He spends his evenings down on his knees Regretting the way he ca..
The End of the Grange

The End of the Grange

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


There isn’t much left of The Grange today, There isn’t much left at all, Only a charred left wing, I think, And the odd, ..
The Hammer of Thor

The Hammer of Thor

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


I used to think that thunder was The sound of the Hammer, Thor, He’d beat it up on the clouds above Each time he was waging war..
The Man that She Helped to Die

The Man that She Helped to Die

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


The Lord High Constable’s men came down To Camberwell’s village square, They asked the Crier to call Oyez To gather the v..
A Chaste Affair

A Chaste Affair

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


When the King rode off to the old Crusades He was leaving his Queen behind, Safe in the hands of his former aids He was coy, but he w..
The Shadow Makers

The Shadow Makers

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


He only appears in the pouring rain When all the gutters are clogged, I asked if anyone knew his name They said, but my ears were blo..
The Harkness Light

The Harkness Light

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


We lived on a tiny spit of land That they called the Harkness Light, It sat on a reef, a mile of sand And it beamed out through the n..
The Gathering In...

The Gathering In...

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


The carts rolled out of the warehouses And trawled each single street, Each drawn by a giant Clydesdale with Those massive hooves and..
Like Mother...

Like Mother...

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


When I met, and married my wife, I opened a secret door, I knew that her mother, Grace, was strange But I didn’t know what for...
The Stepfather

The Stepfather

A Poem by David Lewis Paget


Since ever he came to live at our house We’d never felt safe or sure, So late at night we’d turn out the light And block ..