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Kindred Spirit
I still think of you when I'm alone. You were my first love, I wish you had felt the same, Were we just experimenting with the unknown? Manipulating...
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- 353 reads
Word Cages...................................3
They say poetry is not made for joy, is a bar, rather, that wraps want in beauty seeking to trap us in letter fetters for a sentence of life that,...
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- 660 reads
Two Weeks Till I See You Again........9
I look forward, hopeless as as a fly through glass. Days pass missing you, like a train not stopping where I want to get off, reading recipes I've no...
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- 818 reads
Shells...........................................1
Sun spools through cowparsley flowers, makes a lace of brightness. Birds' songs knit, unravel as I travel beneath budding crab apple trees. Shadow...
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- 696 reads
Why do sheep become jumpers...
Why are sheeps coats made into jumpers- who started it,etc- wacky!
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- 591 reads
Rose Out......................................6
Hurrying to fill up the black holes in the floral stand before the store opens, like a conjurer from drab cardboard boxes I release scented stocks,...
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- 794 reads
Bed Time......................................5
I said "Could we hold hands?" He said "Why? That's for children." I said "Could I have a cuddle?" He said "Trust me, we'll get there quicker like...
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- 810 reads
Putting Sweet Fruit........................7
"Do you like jam?" I want to make you something, put the red fruit sweet in your mouth. I pick strawberries: Summer's scent symbol of sex's fleeting...
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- 762 reads
Oh, Make Me Catch My Breath!..........12
At first, I was relieved - you hadn't had enough of me; now I worry the room I have in your mind is made of straw for you whom I'd trusted in my...
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- 706 reads
Mosquito........................................15
As I whine, here, how much I miss your warm thoughts, return countless times to my hotmail account to no avail - it is over, I see a mosquito hovver...
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- 635 reads
No Good At Maths...........................13
had this conversation with 2 people, so must be my fault
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- 659 reads
A Smoke Signal...................................8
Called to the telephone that evening, I clutched the receiver of untouchable treasure. It took me a while to work out what the soft "click" was in...
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- 803 reads
Failing To Think About Trees..............11
I had this comfort before: the free shawl of afternoon light draped over me, warming me inside out walking in the woods. When your companionship came...
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- 712 reads
Glass Of Water...............................4
You see through me every time, have learned how I distort the world. When you come I tremble; with a finger, you could stir me. If you drank me I...
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- 672 reads
The journey
A feeling of calmness A stillness like a cold empty cathedral The sudden warmth hits you Replenishing the desire for comfort Like a child handed back...
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- 259 reads
Vase............................................18
I wouldn't pick flowers, but, you hand me a vase; beautiful it was - days pass for hours through its glass. So carefully I took it, and, wondering...
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- 793 reads
Jarring Emptiness.............................14
In the garden air simmers. Under the bright tight fitting saucepan lid sky. bruised raspberries lie, meltsoft sweetsharp jewel juices ooze veins wasp...
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- 764 reads
Different Kinds Of Music....................10
On the internet I'd told you I sang all the time: out of tune - songs you don't like. Asking me to stay the night, you'd said we could each have our...
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- 766 reads
QE II
QE II How silent and gracefully you move while being towed from your berth. They say that you are the finest ship ever to be built on this earth. You...
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- 591 reads