Category: Poetry

Let’s Get Metaphysical

“That’s a super-good idea” used to be an expression I used and sometimes still do but the world has moved on and now it’s not even cool to say cool or super-cool; mega-cool might cut it.

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Osip Mandelshtam

When emails were at the cutting edge of technology a friend sent his son, at boarding school, the well known mnemonic Willy, Willy, Harry, Stee.

Romulus and Remus

Kipling’s poem is as bleak an assessment of the world condition today as when he wrote it in 1908. Although he was referencing Canada modern parallels come to mind.

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Better Bonkers

Hello, welcome back to Blog Bellew after the intermission. Normal service will be resumed soon. It has not been a good time for the author; two bad falls, both times knocked out and waking up in pools of blood. After the second fall I went to hospital for a brain scan, etc. So brain bruised… Continue reading Better Bonkers

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High Endeavours

About thirty yers ago I was shooting in Hampshire and met Miles Clark. Having established that we were both brought up in Ireland, albeit on different sides of the border, he told me rather diffidently about his passion for sailing and only later I discovered he had written High Endeavours. Miles Smeeton was his godfather… Continue reading High Endeavours

The Best of Irish

In truth this is no longer “new”; it was published in 1986.

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Death’s Sting

Some hymns repay reading aloud, in full, with time to reflect. Henry Francis Lyte wrote this as he was dying of tuberculosis in 1847.

The Elphi

I went to visit sugar and oil traders in Hamburg a few times over the years, unfortunately before the Elphi opened in 2017.