I bolted myself safely in, With my stained steel lock, Experience engraved In it’s cold hard skin. Then I swallowed the key, You can hear it break free, when I Sing. "Brief: 366/2020 project, prompt 'Lock’ Part of my 2020 New Years Resolution (exercise and challenge!) to write ‘something’ each day for 366 days and …
Category: “Expression Poems
Closing Time
Old Year’s Day draws to its close Raucous room pressed full in warm-faced embrace Separate and alone propped against beer-soaked oak He is found lost in the crowd’s refrains Resonating in silence his disconnected pain. Jovial masquerade acts on in stupor Group-laugh passes by on curve of crescendo then wanes and fades into the future. …
Fearless
My fear is the forest, Faceless, vast and overgrown, where known entwined with unknown And knotted stomachs in it’s branches. Fearless I face you, tiny hands on tilted hip Knock-kneed and stubborn lip Familiar forest, I see you, And tremble a little less. “brief; This weeks Tuesday Poetics hosted by Laura was ‘less is more’. We …
Borne
On top of the mountain, I breathed in, thin cool air, Felt it kiss my skin, Brief relief From the earth separating below, The fault splitting, The burning core spitting, The rising eruption I could no longer resist. Then From the centre of my world, Came your perfect form, With eyes of oak, Your tiny …
The Art Teacher
You sketched your death on a post it note, Etched portrait laid in charcoal coffin, Lined up your family to gaze in, Their hands laden with the days shopping. I sensed the irony of wry dry smile Drawn in to hide your sadness, Tender like the ink-press of a bruise, I watched you ashen …
Promise
Your warmth awoke before me, how could I resist, Resist the dawning coaxing, That your morning promise kissed. Coaxed my wake from sleeps arms, my promises to keep, held dawn up to my window, And let night turn over to sleep. “brief: this Thursdays DVerse ‘Meet the Bar’ hosted by Frank Hubeny was to create …
A Shuffle of Grandads
a shuffle of grandads an aching of bones an aching of waiting a weighting of days a set in of ways a lone of being a being of alone. a drift of forgotten a company of estranged a part of the past a party of none a promise of lost a murder of grief …
