Saturday, 8 March 2025
Wednesday, 5 March 2025
Tuesday, 4 March 2025
Trevor J Potter's Art: If I were a Camera. ( Newly Re-written Poem).
Trevor J Potter's Art: If I were a Camera. ( Newly Re-written Poem).: If I were a camera I would zoom in directly On winter trees loud with anthracite crows, The ice white ripples on a cold shallow lake; The da...
Saturday, 1 March 2025
Thursday, 27 February 2025
If I were a Camera. ( Newly Re-written Poem).
On winter trees loud with anthracite crows,
The ice white ripples on a cold shallow lake;
The dance of snowdrops in the cottage meadow -
Not on hipster life in Kreuzberg Berlin - the snake man
Easing dollars from slobs on Venice beach. Nor would I
Grab a mac to snap Soho in the rain, crowded pubs
Rowdy as Hell in Borough Market; punters sweating pints
on the Cam or Isis.
No, not at all; but I would rather be in rural Ireland
Far from the crowds at any time of year - snug in the
coffee shop
Rock crystals on the counter. There`s an off white sofa to
snuggle up and lounge in -
Cakes of many flavours - coffee more than creamy -
English and Irish spoken soft and loud. Or in Fermanagh
buying
Apples and veg and chatter from that farmer up the hill.-
This is the world I could live in, commemorate in black and
white,
But recall in perfect colours. Here where I am at home, loved
Respected. Not merely a pale face passed in the Underground.-
An image that fades in an instant as the travelers rush by.
Trevor John Karsavin Potter,
27th. 28th. February - March 4th.2025.
Wednesday, 26 February 2025
Monday, 24 February 2025
Friday, 21 February 2025
Bagatelle. (A Poem).
Perhaps I should write a book of bagatelles,
Scraps and off-cuts from my workshop; for
instance
If I should admit that all the photos- all the
Fleeting memories-the wayward dreams we
share
But have rarely talked about. These and all the
Night long phone calls -can-without a single
Clear exception
In no way substitute for months and years apart.
No, we need not write long screeds packed with
feeling
To shout out loud our loneliness, our griefs;
A single bagatelle-perhaps a word or two-that
is enough
To say all we need to say. - To say it true.
Trevor John Karsavin Potter. 21st. February 2025.
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
Monday, 10 February 2025
Moonlight Camden Town / Interior. A poem plus 2 Pictures. (Poem newly Completed).
The swiftly jostling crowds are all strangers.
I walk slowly through the mob
Eyes tracking my footsteps because the path is uneven.
I am mourning Marianne but cannot share my memories
With crowds of folk I have never seen before,
And without a doubt, will never see again.
My past is simply my past and that is all that can be to it.
I am merely a downcast face in the winter throng.
But far away, far beyond the traders;
Far beyond the shoppers and almost at the verge of sight,
I can see a lonely girl dressed in grey and white,
An Ophelia - mod and magical - only I in this crowd could
know.
She is standing at the top of the steps we once climbed up
to the Roundhouse.
Her arms are spread wide. Her greeting, as always, is kindly.
"Beer or coffee"? She whispers.
We frantically rush to the pub before the lights are turned low.
Trevor John Karsavin Potter. February 11th. - 12th. 2025.
Saturday, 8 February 2025
Thursday, 6 February 2025
Saturday, 1 February 2025
Friday, 31 January 2025
Trevor J Potter's Art: Nostalgia.(Completed)
Trevor J Potter's Art: Nostalgia.(Completed): Nostalgia kills. I have spent all week dreaming of the past, Of friends, who when I look at photographs, Or movie clips in black and white, ...
Trevor J Potter's Art: Pocahontas. (New Part 3 added to Complete Poem)
Trevor J Potter's Art: Pocahontas. (New Part 3 added to Complete Poem): 1 Just saying your name is enough Pocahontas. A name that means more than ordinary love ...
Thursday, 30 January 2025
Tuesday, 28 January 2025
Trevor J Potter's Art: With you not here beside me. A New Poem Revised.
Trevor J Potter's Art: With you not here beside me. A New Poem Revised.: With you not here beside me Life seems a near blank page With only a comma on it. A solitary smudge of ink Where words should build cathedr...
Trevor J Potter's Art: Criss - Crossing The Meadow.(Completed)
Trevor J Potter's Art: Criss - Crossing The Meadow.(Completed): Yesterday I went back home To the land of the White Rabbit, The Griffin, and the Sheep who both Rows and knits, parting the autumn reeds Wit...
Monday, 27 January 2025
Trevor J Potter's Art: The Girl Who Came to Tea, A Childhood Memory of Wa...
Trevor J Potter's Art: The Girl Who Came to Tea, A Childhood Memory of Wa...: My mother and her sister left the room Closing the door behind them, But I was more fortunate, I was allowed to stay there, Cosy and war...
Trevor J Potter's Art: Babes in Arms. The Dark Legacies of Total War. (Re...
Trevor J Potter's Art: Babes in Arms. The Dark Legacies of Total War. (Re...: 1 . Seven little words repeated with an understated reverence. Shoah Porajmos Holocaust ...
Saturday, 25 January 2025
Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Tuesday, 21 January 2025
Monday, 20 January 2025
Thursday, 16 January 2025
Sunday, 12 January 2025
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