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2nd March 2020

Many thanks for stopping at my website. However, I am in the early stages of bringing everything up to date so there will not be much to see for the next few weeks. Do please look me up again later this month when I will be able to bring you recent news and information. In the meantime, I will be guesting at Coleshill Library with the wonderful Roy Macfarlane and Liz Le Froy on Wednesday, March 11th (7.00.p.m.-8.30.p.m.) and co-hosting my event Licensed to Rhyme at Jo Jo Jim’s Rednal, Birmingham, on Monday, March 9th with Spoz and Tom McCann, our headliner is Dan Simpson.

In the meantime, if you have any queries I can be contacted at: maggiedoylepoet@gmail.com

Nature Poetry

A Trip to the Malvern Hills

27th October 2012
Maggie Doyle - Poet Laureate

One of my “outings” as laureate was to be part of a walk on the Malvern Hills, together with other poets, and also to meet with a reporter for the local paper. However, all did not go according to plan and I was mislaid, hence the following blog.

I am delighted to say that reports of my disappearance have been blown out of all proportion, not that it is the fault of anyone in particular (except maybe a certain photographer who lured, yes lured, me up the Malvern Hills on a very misty morning).  However, it has given poets in Worcester a few giggles and inspired a couple of poems.

Originally, I was supposed to be the first poet encountered as people hiked, marched, clawed and gasped their way around a set trail last Sunday.  Unfortunately, a keen photographer thought the mist would clear higher up !!! and would thus be able to get a few good photos of the event.  Alas, wet and cobwebbed grass, sack loads of various animal droppings and silhouttes of trees were all that we encountered.

Having hi-jacked a couple of “willing” victims to incorporate in a couple of photos, the photographer gamely headed back for the carpark passing the bench where I should have been sitting in residence. However, all ended well and all participating poets spent a most enjoyable afternoon together.  Another “poetic journey” is planned for next year but, hopefully, in sunshine this time!

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Family Poetry

A Child Is Missing

8th October 2012

and anguished pleas are hurled
at whatever god there may be.
Family and friends unite in disbelief
as do strangers with their underlying relief
that it is not one of theirs. Scared and shocked
they lock their little ones into the security
of closed doors, empty streets
while parental heartbeats race
through heaving chests.
A community unites, frightened by the ease
at which a child “playing out” has suddenly
become an abduction.
Someone in their midst insists they saw nothing,
have nothing to add, no story to tell
as distraught parents are trapped in the hell
of ignorance, not knowing how to cope,
while sorrow steals their hope.

Poetry Sport

London 2012 – Olympic Games

27th July 2012

Well, the day is finally here. The Olympic Games 2012 will be officially opened this evening. Seven years of planning finally coming to fruition. I realise there have been upsets, mistakes, incidents and accidents along the way but all that must be put aside as we join in supporting and celebrating the London 2012 Olympic Games. However, I couldn’t resist just one final little dig …….

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