While it is yet day

Haddon Willmer

Milton

  • The walk to school (three poems)

    One little old lady  Little old lady Topping eighty Rucksacked Runs the roads Faster than I can (that not to say much) Towing a little old dog,  Scrawned in her image She was a regularity On our walk to school Then she was missing, One month, two This morning, Sunbright, We saw again, Summer shorts,…

  • Forgiveness as Permission to Live

    Originally published in Wounds that Heal: Theology, Imagination and Health, ed Jonathan Baxter, SPCK, 2007, pp79-98. The Framework  Words in the forgiveness family are used in many different ways. That needs sorting out. One reason why it does not get sorted out is that many assume they know instinctively what forgiveness is. So our talk…