First snow for Thanksgiving
The first snow of the season showed up on Thanksgiving Sunday. Just a dusting, less than a centimetre, but theContinue Reading
Category: Poetry
Fall without colour becomes winter
Blood and rust Sunburned skins Blocked off from sap In a senescent circuit Light plates separate And fall Without colourContinue Reading
A source of Aire
A source of Aire You come from karst A tarn, to start Then trickle through A fence, a wall BeforeContinue Reading
I am Rombald
I am Rombald Before the wheel The rail, the cut Before the mills Spewed out their soot I roamed theContinue Reading
The Cricketers has left the crease
The Cricketers Arms, Keighley closed down on March 12, 2022. © J. Ashley Nixon The Cricketers Your innings is overContinue Reading
Poem for a Haworth Lass
One year after the publication of Cobbled Together, I was working on one of my poems inspired by my MumContinue Reading
Returning to Rum
Returning to Rum With the shriek of seagull And reek of diesel We headed out through the sound PorpoiseContinue Reading
Cobbled Together
Rabbit Hill, Haworth, Yorkshire. © J. Ashley Nixon Online event April 8, 2021 Ashley Nixon will be talking about CobbledContinue Reading
Table hockey
Table Hockey, Flames Community Arenas, February 14, 2016. © J. Ashley Nixon Table Hockey No NHL to watch tellyContinue Reading
We will remember them
Poppies at the Sarcee Trail pathway war memorial, Signal Hill, Calgary, Alberta, Canada © J. Ashley Nixon They wentContinue Reading
