Whitby Writers Group

a self-help writers co-operative

All Poems

A list of all the poetry published on this site, as of Wed 3 Dec 2025.
These poems are either the work of members of Whitby Writers Group, or included here because they are fancied by members.

Unattributed poems (those which remain unclaimed) are credited to Author: whitbywriters

Don’t say goodbye

The Angel comes again

The Good Ancestor

Weasel Words

Move On

The Angel — Lermontov

The World is bound in secret Knots

Dating in the First Nation

Feral Pigeon

Flyaway Kite

Bristol Zoo

Elderly Polar Bear

We Are The Nazgûl Now

The Octopus

Baboons

The Great I AM

Monument of Shame

Birthday DilemmaDavid Agnew

The Last Woman

Mato Grosso

The Battle of Mars

The Third World War

The First Day Of Winter 2024

Eco Referendum

Wind Phone

How Can You Sleep?

Playing At Soldiers

Growing Up In The 50s

The Child Is Farther Than The Man

Large Head-on Collider

La Cathédrale engloutie

Many paths across the field

ce qu’a vu le vent d’ouest

Memories

Johnny Appleseed

Invincible Ignorance

Inuits Aren’t Fools

Brain in a vat

Cosmic clog-dance

Bos taurus primigeniusHarry Nicholson

Lost Tribe

A Promise Is Not A Delivery

Chimpanzees don’t say goodbye

Genocide?

Patty Piggie

Thoughts of profundity set down on waking in the middle of the night

Karma

The Old Man at the Great Wall

Can Nobles Get Away With Murder?

Moon Heroine

Tardigrade

Eleusinian Mystery

Sunrise

Sundown

Seven Days

Tiger Sandwich

Where do candle flames go when you blow them out?

Blood LustAdele Duffield

We Are The Nazgûl

My goals in life

The Angels of Okinawa — Maxwell and Ian Clark (writing as earthspot)

On The Market

Sunset On West CliffAdele Duffield

Woodland WanderingsAdele Duffield

It was a war…  Clark Nida

The Silver Swan — Orlando Gibbons — fancied by:  Ian Clark

Tautologies —  earthspot

Paradise Lost (quotation) — John Milton — fancied by:  Ian Clark

Ahmed the Compassionate  Ian Clark

Who am I? — Jonathan Atkinson

Stargazing — Jonathan Atkinson

On The Market — Mike Silkstone

A Written Constitution for the UniverseIan Clark

Tupaia  Ian Clark

There’s Plastic in the Water Ian Clark

The Homily of St Hilda — Anon — fancied by:  Ian Clark

Monsters — Jonathan Atkinson

Fuel Rods — Roger Gould

New light on Wandrers Nachtlied — Ian Clark

In Praise of Cicero — Ian Clark

Tips on Writing — Tony Oswick — fancied by:  Ian Clark

Wystan Hugh Auden — Ian Clark

Sunset on West CliffAdele Duffield

Paradise, California — Jonathan Atkinson

Poundland  — Simon Armitage — fancied by: Adele Duffield

Borders — Adele Duffield

To the Girl with the Face Transplant — Ian Clark

TANNOY — Jonathan Atkinson

Early Morning — David Agnew

STENDEC — Ian Clark

Dover Beach — William Arnold — fancied by:  Ian Clark

Lviv – or is it Lvov? — Ian Clark

An Abandoned Mission Station in Inland  Papua-New GuineaJonathan Atkinson

Elephant in the Room — Ian Clark

Woodland Wanderings — Adele Duffield

Last Stop — Adele Duffield

Partings and Departings — Adele Duffield

The Latter Yugoslavia — Roger Gould

Stages of Life — David Agnew

Roof — Jonathan Atkinson

Anniversary — Jenny Hill

St Cuthbert’s Sermon — Roger Gould

Red Shoes — Jenny Hill

Golden Girl — Jonathan Atkinson

The Moon Machine — Ian Clark

The Reiki Prayer — Ian Clark (after Mikai Usui)

What is a boy? —  Clark Nida (after Abraham Lincoln)

Washday — Adele Duffield

Dancing to his Tune — Jenny Hill

Overture and Beginners, Please — Jonathan Atkinson

Epitaph for an Astronaut  — Ian Clark