Jeff Guess

Devils on Horseback   Asparagus Wrapped in Crisp Prosciutto   One-Eyed Egyptian Sandwich   Blackberry and Beetroot Salad Greek Salad...

Poetry for Supper   'Listen, now, verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To...

Poetry for Supper Recipes Jeff Guess

A Peasant   Iago Prytherch his name, though, be it allowed, Just an ordinary man of the bald Welsh hills, Who pens a few sheep in a gap...

Be Nice to Rhubarb   Please say a word for rhubarb, It hasn't many chums For people like banana splits Or fancy juicy plums. They slice...

Words, Wide Night   Somewhere on the other side of this wide night and the distance between us, I am thinking of you. The room is turning...

Piano   Softly, in the dusk, a woman is singing to me;   Taking me back down the vista of years, till I see   A child sitting under the...

This is Just to Say   I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox   and which you were probably saving for breakfast   Forgive me they...

Sonnet 30 When to the sessions of sweet silent thought   When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things...

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame places him among the...