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Gray Lightfoot

@graylight.bsky.social
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I like to tell stories, mostly through poetry…occasionally performing them. Live in Cornwall (Kernow), Land of my Fathers. Socialist, Humanist. SWFC 🟰🟰 www.graylightfoot.co.uk

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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone fancy an evening of poetry in Penzance on Saturday night. 7.30 at The Acorn theatre #poetry #Cornwall theacornpenzance.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
70 years old on this planet (as a nature lover and a walker) and I finally saw a kingfisher. River Barle, Dulverton, Somerset. I felt so privileged.
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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THE UNGRATEFUL CORNISH by Gray Lightfoot
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Writing a poem for my wife’s birthday using this photo from 1980 as an inspiration. Any garden experts out there who recognised the cascading plant/flowers behind her? I recognise bougainvillea on the left of the photo. #plantid #floweringshrubs #gardenquery
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Available free on Channel 4 catchup
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Found that it merits a second viewing
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Writing a poem for my wife’s birthday using this photo from 1980 as an inspiration. Any garden experts out there who recognised the cascading plant/flowers behind her? I recognise bougainvillea on the left of the photo. #plantid #floweringshrubs #gardenquery
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Poem about friendship and a song #loveisthedrug #roxymusic #blackpoolmecca #northernsoul graylightfoot.co.uk/2026/08/04/l...
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LOVE IS THE DRUG, BLACKPOOL MECCA 1975 (in memory of John 1957-1990)
I remember the police houses being built, at the bottom of our street in Brierfield. We used to play on the scaffolding and in the builders’ sand as they were being constructed (kids did in t…
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Old man rants about fashion #poem #CornwallPoet graylightfoot.co.uk/2026/07/20/h...
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HOLES IN YOUR JEANS
Old man rants about fashion… HOLES IN YOUR JEANS Back when they reckoned “an ugly mend Was far better than a pretty hole”. And my knowledge of the fashion world, Well…was non-existent on the …
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
A poem for the 90% of Cornish people who don’t make money out of tourism. (probably more like 95% but it doesn’t scan so well) #Cornwall
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
A poem about future archeology #Cornwall #standingstones
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THE THIRD PIPER OF BOLEIGH
There are two standing stones near to Boleigh Farm (a few miles west of Penzance) which are known as The Pipers. Their name derives from the story that they were two pipers who provided the music f…
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Almost 50% of us knew this but the slight majority let their prejudices win. The same thing happened in England which has left the country much worse off. You could say Karma there as well. Please don’t assume the whole of Cornwall voted for Brexit.
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Sunday evening, Penzance, Cornwall, UK
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
It’s Dylan Thomas Day today graylightfoot.co.uk/2023/05/14/a...
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A DRINK WITH DYLAN THOMAS – NEW YORK 2022
In a previous poem (Anno Dylani 1969), I alluded to how Dylan Thomas made me want to write. When Wendy and I flew to New York to celebrate our 45th wedding anniversary, I wanted to walk in the foot…
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Cheers, Chris.
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Spotted this duck (it makes a noise like Jimmy Carr laughing) by the River Rhine in Germany. Anybody any idea what type of duck it is?
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The implication that everyone in Cornwall voted to Leave is a sweeping statement. Brexit-voting England did the same (see what I mean?)
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Check out my poetry website #poetry graylightfoot.co.uk
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The light brimming around St Clement’s Island and a lovely pink house. “Adrift, St Clement’s Island made skeletal by the high tide Resembles some waking kraken full of hideous intent To plunder Mousehole’s harbour wall And coil a tentacle or two around an unsuspecting tourist” #Cornwall
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
As a Poet of Penzance it is a concept I have used on more than one occasion
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Gray Lightfoot performs THE MODERN CORNISH BUS DRIVER'S SONG from THE BUS DRIVER'S OF PENZANCE
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Lovely walk around Cape Cornwall yesterday and spotted the first Hottentot Fig flower of the year.
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
#PostBoxSaturday Nice Victorian post box in the Kennal Vale between Stithians and Ponsanooth, Cornwall, UK
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
A poem about a hero - Shelagh Delaney #poem #ShelaghDelaney graylightfoot.co.uk/2023/10/04/f...
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FINDING SHELAGH DELANEY
Shelagh “interacts with dark-clad native women” As it says in the poem, I was searching for heroes…hoping to do a performance of poems in which I honoured the heroes that influenced my writin…
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
After 40 days and nights of rain (seems like it!), it was nice to get down to Mousehole and walk home with the blue sky, sea and birdsong as accompaniment. #Cornwall
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
A poem about Cornwall, its geology, its history and its language #Kernow #poetry #TheLizard #Serpentine
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Gray Lightfoot performs SERPENTINE
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
If you’d like to check out my poetry (much of it inspired by Cornwall, where I live) go to graylightfoot.co.uk
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
First only ran routes that made a profit. They ditched all the subsidised routes a few years ago and kept the Mousehole route because it made a profit. I think Mr Stephens is being disingenuous by saying the route can’t be run as it was. It has been for years. It is also part of Mousehole’s history.
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
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I WAS YOURS (a 40 year old reflection on John Cooper Clarke’s iconic poem I WANNA BE YOURS)
I don’t usually enter competitions (always down to the judges personal taste) but when I saw there was one to be on the bill at Dr John’s gig in London, I thought I might as well have a…
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
A short poem about religion where bling is the thing. #poetry #organisedreligion
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
TREKEIVESTEPS, RIVER FOWEY, CORNWALL A poem about a beautiful peaceful place near the Golitha Falls in East Cornwall
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Cornwall’s housing problems 5 #Cornwall #Kernow youtu.be/g22gg419S44?...
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The Chronic Ills of NARNIA (part five) by Gray Lightfoot
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Cornwall’s housing problems 4 #Cornwall #Kernow youtu.be/Lysn5YPTq6M?...
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THE CHRONIC ILLS OF NARNIA (part four) by Gray Lightfoot
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Cornwall’s housing problems 3 #Cornwall #Kernow youtu.be/APY7qRtpWB4?...
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THE CHRONIC ILLS OF NARNIA (part three) by Gray Lightfoot
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Cornwall’s housing problems #Cornwall #Kernow youtu.be/0ecOECHaQ-E?...
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THE CHRONIC ILLS OF NARNIA (part two) by Gray Lightfoot
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
#Cornwall #Kernow Cornwall’s housing problems youtu.be/gqAXaTxXBtI?...
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THE CHRONIC ILLS OF NARNIA (part one) by Gray Lightfoot
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
A poem about the repression of language #welshlanguage #cornishlanguage #cymraeg #kernewek
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Colonial Narratives
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
I’m in Cornwall too but loving the hat! #WAWAW
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
I live in Penzance and like to visit St Ives out of season (sunny winter’s day a favourite)…but won’t go at the height of summer.
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
No, I shall look it up, Ffred. 😀
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
A poem about the Lizard peninsula in Cornwall, its unusual geology, history and the Cornish language graylightfoot.co.uk/2025/10/08/s... #LizardCornwall #geology #poetry
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SERPENTINE
I’ve always been fascinated with the geology of the Lizard peninsula. How an upstart breakaway geological splurge of molten rock slowly (and I mean slowly…we’re talking millenia h…
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Just back from shopping, Penzance, Cornwall ❤️
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
A Christmas poem from someone who doesn’t do Christmas poems. A real robin seen at The Range, Penzance, Cornwall #poetry #Christmaspoem youtu.be/3llYKqyPE-k
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A ROBIN AT THE RANGE by Gray Lightfoot
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Didn’t win the Moth Nature Prize with this but I’m happy with it. #Cornwall #RiverFowey #Trekeivesteps #CornishPoetry graylightfoot.co.uk/2025/12/06/t...
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TREKEIVESTEPS, (RIVER FOWEY, CORNWALL)
I was asked to perform at Liskeard Library so Wendy and I searched for somewhere to stay over the weekend where we could take our ageing housecat, Licky. We found this artists studio at a place cal…
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Lovely calm day on the Mousehole to Newlyn road last week. Cornwall at its best.
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
“I think everyone should have a Pendle Hill growing up.” Milly Hayward A poem about a life of 70 years and how a wonderful landmark meant so much in it. graylightfoot.co.uk/2025/11/22/p... #poetry #PendleHill #LancashireLife
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(PENDLE HILL) THE NEARLY MOUNTAIN
On a recent visit to the land of my birth (Lancashire, England), my family and I decided we would climb up Pendle Hill once again. I got to thinking that perhaps it will be the last time, I can cli…
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
I used to drive the Moushole bus and as you can imagine heard all sorts (even had a Muesli once). It seems people are more aware how it isn’t pronounced than how it actually is. When asked, I used to say it rhymes with ‘arousal’.
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A poem about geology, Cornwall, The Lizard Peninsula and the Cornish language. #Kernewek #Serpentine #poem graylightfoot.co.uk/2025/10/08/s...
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SERPENTINE
I’ve always been fascinated with the geology of the Lizard peninsula. How an upstart breakaway geological splurge of molten rock slowly (and I mean slowly…were talking millenia here!), …
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Gray Lightfoot @graylight.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
It’s #NationalPoetryDay and here’s a poem about the view out of my Cornish window. graylightfoot.co.uk/2024/11/28/t...
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THE ABBEY SLIP – SUMMER MORNING
I am very fortunate that this painting by Stanhope Forbes, founder and principal of the Newlyn School of Artists, is the view I have out of my side window. Just over a hundred years have passed sin…
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