Great Feedback On My “Selected Poems”

I was delighted to receive the following email earlier today:

“Dear Mr Morris,
I am writing to tell you that your poems in “The Collected Poems of K Morris” that you gave me on the train on my way to college are exceptional. You might not remember me but I am the girl doing politics and history that you met on the train and gifted your amazing book to. I have always been interested in writing poems and therefore you have really inspired me to carry on my interest and write some poems of my own. I would really like to thank you for gifting me your book and inspiring me to continue writing”.

The Selected Poems of K. Morris

“The Selected Poems of K Morris” can be found here https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07WW8WXPP/ (for the UK), and here https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WW8WXPP/. (for amazon.com customers).

(Please note, I have not included the young lady’s name in order to protect her privacy).

Crocodile

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A crocodile on a log.

I sat. My dog nearby

And thought

Perhaps

I ought

To run away

To live another day

As the creature might be starving –

But it was merely carving,

A log,

Me, and my dog

On a spring day

Impermanence

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These flowers

Are fading now.

This vase

Which stands so stable

On this wooden table

May not break

In my lifetime.

But hours pass.

Glass breaks

And this rhyme

Composed as I sit

At this wooden table

As the clock ticks

May remain

When all I see

Is gone from me.

But this grain

Of truth

Will stay

When my mind

Can no longer play

With time.

Currently Untitled

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Walking to the pub to meet you

On a warm afternoon in summertime

The rhyme of Richard Corry filled my mind.

I remember well

How the water fell

Into the pub’s pond

Recycled again and again.

Few things last long

And all things must fall

In the end.

Still I recall

Meeting my friend

And discussing Robinson’s rhyme

One summertime

Long ago.

The same rain falls

Again and again

And seasons return

But men …

Cooling Tea

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Dull spring morning.

Another day

Of work

In a contemporary play

Of temporary things.

Soon the afternoon

Will come.

The sun

May shine –

How many moons

And suns

Will I see?

My mug of tea

Grows cold

Next to me

Guy with a Tie

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There once was a guy with a tie

Who was plagued by a very large fly.

When a girl called Yvette

Said, “is he your pet?”

He swatted that fly with his tie!

Miss Prism

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When a beautiful young lady named Miss Prism

Said, “the sun he has long since risen”.

I said, “the moon

Will come out soon –

And have you ever been good Miss Prism …!”

Your Shadow

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On a day in early spring

I heard the birds sing

As we walked together

Through this ever-changing weather.

And as we walked

I wished to talk

With you my dear old friend.

But it was my shadow

That walked in sunshine

For you have crossed the line

Where all things end.

I cannot cry

Or go where you have gone,

Yet our friendship lives on

And one day I will become

A shadow in sun

And shade

For life is made

Of fleeting shadows

And I know

That I must one day go

Were you have gone.

But other men

May see my shadow

Walking beside them

And know me

And their own mortality.

Interview with Author Esther Chilton

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I was delighted to interview talented author Esther Chilton on the World Poetry Café. To listen to my interview with Esther please follow this link https://flashfiction2.substack.com/p/world-poetry-cafe-april-23-2026-with. The interview begins approximately 22 minutes into the podcast.