Poetry Exchange: Pilgrims of hope 25 Feb 2026 17:30 - 19:00 at The Red Lion

We will be reconveing after a break and warmly invite you to join us for our first poetry exchange of the year on Feb 25th.   The theme is Praise poem - and you can interpret this any way you like, or not at all.  You can simply use the space to thank, or appreciate, or appreciatively observe, either with a text of your own or one you would like to share. 

As a delightful example, and possibly inspiration, here is one of Pablo Neruda's Odes to Common Things, in praise of an onion.

From ‘Ode to the onion’

Generously

you give up

your balloon of freshness

to the boiling consummation

of the pot,

and in the blazing heat of the oil

the shred of crystal

is transformed into a curled feather of gold.