Author Archives: Terry Wassall

The Headingley Open Gardens 2025 poetry collection

Posted on 14 June 2025 by Terry Wassall

To commemorate and publicise the 2025 Headingley Open Gardens, Sunday 22nd June, the Heartlines Writers were invited to put on a display of garden related poems in the entrance foyer of the Heart Centre. All the poems are published here … Continue reading →

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The Garden of Rest

Posted on 14 June 2025 by Terry Wassall

The long hot days lead me to go and view the garden long unkept, the uncut grass, the bushes grow unpruned, unshaped, where weeds have crept. I sit beside the shimmering pond beneath the shading cherry tree, recalling memories so … Continue reading →

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Sitting on my patio

Posted on 14 June 2025 by Terry Wassall

Pinks and blue-greys of the patio slabs Brought in containers from an Indian shore To lie in Bradford, so far from home, Where I sit book in hand, and meditate. Lavender, marigold and sun flowers Fill the margins of my … Continue reading →

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The Punishment of the Gods

Posted on 27 May 2025 by Terry Wassall

Since I wrote this poem the arches have had barriers closing them off and so not available for the homeless to shelter. This is probably because Bradford is the 2025 City of Culture. The building in the distance is the … Continue reading →

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Woodland Burial

Posted on 2 December 2024 by Terry Wassall

One late summer evening In the autumn of our lives As we often do these days We talked about death These were our good times The old feuds, bitter arguments Cutting insults, biting sarcasms All lay behind us We agreed, … Continue reading →

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Undercliffe Cemetery – a prose poem

Posted on 8 March 2023 by Terry Wassall

The monumental gates are broad. The pillared span admits respectable citizens, the high and the low, captains of industry and the foot soldiers; the wealth makers of money and markets, the wealth creators born to necessity and toil. The gradations … Continue reading →

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Heartline Writers – Phenomenal Woman

Posted on 8 March 2023 by Terry Wassall

Poetry, stories and singing for International Women’s Day Richard Wilcocks writes: “In Headingley’s Heart Centre, the Shire Oak Hall was full. A Powerpoint display was beginning on the large screen, ready to inform those present of the names of poets … Continue reading →

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Small Ghosts Collection – October 2022

Posted on 28 October 2022 by Terry Wassall

These poems were written by the Heartlines writers group to commemorate the old Headingley Primary School (1882-2006). After a 5 year project in 2011 the school building became the  Heart Centre, the Headingley Enterprise and Arts Centre, a community enterprise … Continue reading →

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National Poetry Day Heartlines Collection – The Environment

Posted on 6 October 2022 by Terry Wassall

Today, October the 6th, is National Poetry Day. To support it the Heartlines Writers group wrote a number of poems on the Poetry Day’s 2022 theme, the environment, and distributed them free around various locations in Leeds. We have also … Continue reading →

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Report on Heartlines Poetry and Music event for International Women’s Day 2022

Posted on 10 March 2022 by Terry Wassall

To mark International Women’s Day, 8th March 2022,  the Heartlines Creative Writing Group put on a subtle programme of poetry, prose and research celebrating women in history and modern times. A score of writers shared the lines they had penned … Continue reading →

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