Here is another wonderful picture taken by Glyn Goodrick and my poem to match. If you’re tempted by these poems and/or pictures, they are from ‘Recollections’ available from Flambard Press. www.flambardpress.co.uk

Fortuna

Your wings
are still buried
in our muddy river
yet you offer, with your right hand,
a drink.

Top Up
every barrel
daughter of Jupiter.
We owe our rough times and our smooth
to you.

So cheers!
Our Geordie cups
will always be half-full
not half-empty: that’s our nature.
Good health.

Who knows
the stone’s story
or what blessings it brought,
but we are the inheritors.
Our thanks

Fortune,
You smiled on us.
First angel of the North,
from your horn of plenty you filled
the Tyne.