frozen

 Siberian winds sweep across the land baby snowfall leave footprints in the sand icicles of love whisper reach out your hand frozen listen to the music of the band numb you have been too long warm your heart by the burning log wrap up do up the anorak togs feel safe and snug let me […]

Poem a day Challenge #6 Heart-Shaped

the void heart-shaped like cinders and the glass slippers fits like a glove the catsuit olivia had to be sewn into in grease matches mine exactly the hollow silence mouth-shaped parallel words swallowed back never to see the light of day nor the black of night the hand reached out finding none to return the call the […]

Colours of Love

  Love is a chameleon changing merging into the background Love is the colour crimson bleeds you dry drop by drop Love is the colour blue fucks with your head Love is the colour orange  dazzles with the light Love is the colour black buries in the dark well of despair Love is the colour […]

Life Laundry

  separate the pain anger resentment into piles read the labels carefully add in a tab of forgiveness don’t forget the fabric conditioner of forgetfulness select the programme of letting go take out dry on the line under the burning sun blown by the breath of life fresh air smelling of sweet red roses freshly mowed […]

Poem a day challenge #5 Voices

Voices in me head so many so myriad which one will take the director’s chair today Will it be the anarchist teenager with loads of spunk the hurting unwanted child the sad middle aged wife dumped the scolding parent pointing the finger I told you so not good enough again see rejected thrown out with […]

Cease

O beautiful gentle voiced healing touch woman personified cease toiling trying be Ditch that perpetual damn stick let yourself off the hook extend compassion love wounded little girl patient waiting in the wings Come take my hand hear ocean roar crashing waves suck away trauma pain catch your reflection in tidal luminous moon love the person gazing back smile just be Cease […]

Loss

for Dee

Beethoven’s unfinished symphony ear of Van Gogh that

fav earring misplaced ne’er found

loss echoes resounds

whirling eddying pebble cast ripples profound

haunting waking sleepless nothing moments

taunting

Pain access all areas nil by mouth dulled once

razor sharp spiking drilling for oil soul’s ocean

secret depth buried treasure wreck core what

it means to be human suffering is all how to bear

with dignity hope till last drop wrung universal language

no phrasebook dictionary required tears UN interpreter

Mourn what I had childhood that ne’er was innocence

faith hope trust naivety ignorance is true bliss I envy

gift for head in sand a comforting safe place to

repose cease be

Like the days magical eagle soaring woman I was

aspired crispy Autumn leaves crunching beneath our feet

decaying crumbling merging whence it came moon waning

full crescent half eclipse tide rushing in out so I let go of

myriad loss that unfinished business called

life

Love

towards the end we lay careful

not to touch and

you said maybe love is not

enough

i thought if love is not

enough

what is

perhaps

it is

you simply didn’t recognise

mistook it for something else

you were not ready for the gift

one day you may realise

grass is not greener on the other side

what you tastes is diluted

love

feel a pang of regret

know

you’ve been a

fool

Kindness of strangers

For Ray Ferrer Waltzing licks of flames of kindness Butterfly descending on soul in darkness Chink of light in deep black well Not laughing inside I am dying Not many perks to cancer Except kindness of strangers Warm blanket wrapped round homeless soul Squeeze of the hand Tissue to wipe your tears A lifeline thrown

Memory Lane

Memory Lane Ebbing flow of joy deep Sorrow Words images thoughts Borrow When pain doubles us up Burrow Sometimes truth hard to Swallow But there is always Tomorrow