Thursday, November 5, 2026: Terrence Sykes' "Baltic", "Anglo in Saxony", and "Return to Oz"

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                                                                                                                             Return to Oz © Terrence Sykes



Terrence Sykes is a GASP ( Gay Alcoholic Southern Poet) and a far better gardener & forager & cook …..his poetry - photography - flash fiction – collages have been published in Bangladesh Canada Ireland  India  Mauritius Pakistan Scotland Spain Turkey & USA….born and raised in the rural coal mining area of Virginia … this  isolation brings the theme of remembrance to his creations — whether real or imagined.


Baltic   

worn guidebook

found on a bench

in the park in that

foreign town

byzantine framed

icon’d memories

baltic forests

flower laden

marsh mints

finch amongst

linden & autumn

nettles not yet

gathered by village women

whose family always lacked

simmering amongst

rutabagas for dinner

some night before

those waters flowed

almost like moonlight

turned its back

eclipsed & failed

to guide the tides to

the last stop

of that ragged

Paperback

© Terrence Sykes


 

Anglo in Saxony 

beech forests  

poplar meadows 

chestnut groves

dusty roads slice fallowed fields

birch embroidering streams

through fog & mist

amongst the stars

almond & apricot lanterns

paper mâché poppy   cosmos

cling upon & amongst

planets & moons

beyond

 

below

descent & ascent

confined by rail slats

lullabied & cradled

alone along  

the Elbe

river valley

dirt to stone to asphalt

steel sparks smoke

window bound

on the overnight

Prague – Dresden train

© Terrence Sykes

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