Paul T. M. Jackson

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The Bucolics

  1. Seasons Come and Seasons Go…

Some Reflections

  1. Beauty
  2. Listen to Your Heart
  3. Chewing the Marrow
  4. Just For the Sake of it (Ars Gratia Artis)
  5. You Can Keep…

Over Dale and Fell

  1. Spring is in the Air
  2. The Lonely Tree
  3. The Old Oak
  4. O Weeping Willow
  5. Autumn Leaves
  6. Whisper of the Leaves
  7. The Climbing Plant
  8. Wildflowers
  9. Bluebell Wood
  10. The Sonorous Silence of the Wood
  11. Shapes of Mountains
  12. Mighty Mountains Standing Tall
  13. Pink Mountains
  14. Snowy Mountain
  15. Snowy Mountains
  16. Snowy Mountains (2)
  17. Snowflakes
  18. Summer Snow
  19. O’er the Hills and Far Away
  20. Fields of Gold
  21. Long Grass Swaying
  22. The Hearth
  23. The Flickering of the Flame

Mere and Brook

  1. A Stream Gently Trickling By…
  2. The Mere
  3. The Lapping of the Waves
  4. Shimmering Light

The Colours of Skies

  1. The Mists
  2. Morning Light
  3. The Sun
  4. Faces in the Clouds
  5. The Colours of Skies
  6. Sepia Skies
  7. The Storm
  8. Thunder and Lightning

Starry, Starry Night

  1. As Night Falls
  2. Twilight
  3. Starry, Starry Night
  4. The Star
  5. The Dog Star
  6. The Pleiades
  7. The Morning Star
  8. Jupiter
  9. Mars
  10. Saturn
  11. Mercury
  12. Uranus
  13. Neptune
  14. Pluto
  15. The Earth
  16. Do You Ever Read the Moonlight?

In Meadow and Copse

  1. Goats and Lambs
  2. The Baby Boars
  3. Dairy Cows in Daisy Fields
  4. March Hares

On the Wing

  1. The Kingfisher
  2. Robin Red Breast
  3. Swallow, Swallow…
  4. The Buzzards
  5. The Crow and the Buzzard
  6. The Call of the Lapwing
  7. The Noble Pheasant
  8. The Peacock
  9. Two Doves
  10. The Blackbird
  11. Birdsong
  12. The Firefly
  13. The Dart of the Dragonfly
  14. The Butterfly and the Wildflower
  15. The Lucky Ladybird 

The Rural Life

  1. Old Villages
  2. Ruins of Castles

The Bucolic Life

  1. Gathering Olives
  2. Gathering Nuts
  3. Out Scrumpin’
  4. Gathering Shellfish, Barnacles, and Flatfish
  5. Foraging for Mushrooms
  6. Foraging for Truffles
  7. Foraging for Herbs
  8. The Arbusier
  9. Making Digestifs
  10. Growing Herbs
  11. Growing Plants and Flowers
  12. Growing Fruit
  13. Big Game Hunting
  14. Hunting for Game Birds
  15. Fishing for Trout
  16. Fishing for Pike
  17. Trapping Crayfish
  18. Catching Elvers
  19. Netting Poutine

Poems From Around the World

  1. The Road Less Travelled

Impressions on France

  1. Lost in France
  2. The Camargue
  3. Reillanne
  4. Butterflies
  5. Gréolières
  6. Gréolières-les-Neiges
  7. Coaraze
  8. Caussols (The Way to Heaven)
  9. Caussols Again, or Back to Caussols
  10. Bézaudun
  11. Arcachon
  12. Rosy Evenings
  13. Thinking on the Hill Folk
  14. An Autumn Bergerie
  15. The Baus
  16. Jay Wood

Impressions on Corsica

  1. The Island of the Sirens
  2. Pietracorbara
  3. Occi
  4. Lama

Impressions on Italy

  1. Italian Villages
  2. Tuscan Skies
  3. Cinque Terre

Impressions on Sardinia

  1. Teulada
  2. Su Nuraxi
  3. Su Mannau
  4. Isola Rossa
  5. Caprera
  6. Antas

Impressions on Spain

  1. Camino de Santiago
  2. Cadiz
  3. Andalusia

Impressions on Tenerife

  1. Teide
  2. Starry, Starry Night

Impressions on England

  1. Green Island
  2. England, O England
  3. This the Place I Know
  4. The Farm
  5. When We Three Once Were Lads
  6. The Lane
  7. Everton

Impressions on Wales

  1. Rambling
  2. Storm Fear
  3. Rainbows

Impressions on Germany

  1. The River Rhine

Impressions on Greece

  1. Greek Island Hopping

Impressions on Turkey

  1. Pamukkale

Impressions on Africa

  1. The Nile
  2. Sidi Bou Said
  3. Marrakesh

Impressions on Ecuador

  1. The Amazon

The Four Seasons of the Soul

  1. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Wordsworth)

Spring of Hope

  1. Thinking on My Life
  2. After the Rain
  3. My Love Letter
  4. A Long Time Ago
  5. Kindred Spirits
  6. In Foreign Parts
  7. Separated
  8. Will She Ever be?
  9. Pro Ersina
  10. Don’t Know How to Act

Summer of Love

  1. What is Lust?
  2. What is Love?
  3. Love is…
  4. I Saw Her
  5. The Songbird
  6. A Rose She is
  7. She is Everything to me

Autumn of Loss

  1. Autumn Bloom
  2. Soul Mates
  3. Love and Loss
  4. Butterfly
  5. You Wanted to Wait, But I Wanted to Run
  6. A Love Lost
  7. Separation
  8. A Far Off Land
  9. I’m on the Beach
  10. O Why o Why?
  11. How Could You?
  12. Left to Hang
  13. I Cried
  14. When all You Can do is Cry
  15. Never Before
  16. This Pain I Feel
  17. Uncomfortably Numb
  18. Finality
  19. The End
  20. Trying to Move on
  21. Can’t Move on
  22. Why o Why?
  23. What Would You have Done

Winter of Loneliness

  1. Winter
  2. The Winter Sun
  3. Winter Blues
  4. Fields of Empty
  5. Pale Sun
  6. Alone
  7. The Hollow Man
  8. Has She Changed?
  9. There’s Somewhere for Everyone
  10. Outside
  11. Down by the River
  12. I Know a Place
  13. In Foreign Parts
  14. The Wand’ring Man
  15. I Want to be a Mountain Man
  16. Shaking off the Shackles
  17. I Lie Down and Look Back

Echoes Down the Corridor

  1. The Damselfly (Translation)
  2. A Dark Place
  3. Feeling Like…
  4. When All You Want Is…
  5. The Lost Lamb
  6. Voices on the Breeze
  7. Sonnet II
  8. A Thousand Miles Away, a Thousand Years Ago
  9. Sat Under That Tree
  10. Poppies
  11. Better Off Without Each Other
  12. Better to Have Loved…
  13. I Close my Eyes
  14. Winter’s Snow
  15. The Changing of the Seasons
  16. Into the Unknown
  17. The Way
  18. The Brook
  19. Pebbled Stream
  20. Mountain Ranges
  21. Paths
  22. Shivers Down the Spine
  23. The Grownup Child
  24. Try Ev’rything, Try it All
  25. Ambitio Contra Satisfactionem
  26. The Pursuit of Perfection
  27. The Glass Half Full
  28. Maybe This Year Now
  29. Over The Hills and Far Away
  30. Ma Vie et Mon Ame
  31. When the World Stops Spinning
  32. Sensation (Translation)
  33. If I Go Before You
  34. Black, Black Night
  35. To Die and Come Back
  36. The Morning (Translation)

Others

  1. Spring is in the Air Again
  2. March Rains
  3. Evening’s Golden Rains
  4. I Love…
  5. Hopes
  6. O Mia Bambina Cara
  7. O Mia Bambina Cara (2)
  8. The Last Night
  9. The Night my Nan Died
  10. Storm Clouds
  11. The Sound of Silence
  12. Metamorphosis
  13. The Silver Lining
  14. Swallows
  15. Trinity (Haiku)
  16. The World in Black and White
  17. An Ode to Provence (Our First Holiday)
  18. The Pont du Gard
  19. Sigonce
  20. The Lost Valley
  21. Time Wasted Isn’t Wasting Time
  22. The Important Things in Life
  23. It’s Where You’re Going, Not Where You’re From
  24. Go Your Own Way
  25. Indian Summers
  26. A Scarab’s Journey
  27. Karma
  28. We Change, But In Some Ways Not At All
  29. The Fingers of God
  30. Snow Behind the Bauos
  31. Falling Leaves
  32. A Sea Scene
  33. At the Break of Day
  34. Change
  35. Yesterday Evening
  36. The Persimmon Tree
  37. Silver Seas
  38. The Skies are Crying for me
  39. The World Through Another’s Eyes
  40. White Nights
  41. Know Thyself
  42. Going Back
  43. Rainbows in the Waterfall
  44. Cherry Blossoms on the Bauo
  45. Drifting Away
  46. Depression Unspoken
  47. Chasing Rainbows
  48. Voices from the Mountains
  49. It’s not all…
  50. The Highs and the Lows, the Ups and the Downs
  51. Going Home
  52. Castle-Hunting (Castellaras de Thorenc)
  53. Going All In
  54. Appreciation
  55. The Best Times
  56. Somehow…
  57. Feeling Like Home
  58. Courmettes
  59. Our Prince of the Stars
  60. The Via Appia
  61. A Strange Meeting III
  62. Love is…
  63. Home Again
  64. De Village en Village
  65. Denied
  66. A Voice in the Mountains
  67. Uncertainty
  68. Haiku (for Mia)
  69. Know