Under The Pressures From Above

This was inspired by swimming under water. Can also be linked to oppressive societies or religions...maybe, not sure.
Cherry

The French Dresser.

The beautiful antique dressing table seemed like a bargain. But its true cost would not be paid in money. It came with a very unpleasant history. And a long memory.

ST. PETER'S HARBOUR, PEI poem

Boats in the harbour, smell of fish in your nostrils, evening sounds: all add to the excitement of a fishing village, as a crowd awaits.
Cherry

BESIDE DORCHESTER, NB poem

It is a terrible experience to visit your son in prison. To see him locked behind barbed wire, with guards monitoring every movement. We still love him.

AN AWAKENING poem

Our thoughts are at ease in early morning, when mist surrounds our view, and the spirit of peace grows within our hearts.
Cherry

Up River

repost poem version
Cherry

Friday Sonnet: Silver

No wine these grapes of hurt set free, No coin is bartered for their taste: my lover, My friend, you do no longer look at me… The forging of my fantasies is over:

The Spider

I wrote this back in 1974 to amuse my youngest daughter then aged 8. She always was a blood thirsty little so and so!

Wel I know now...

Well I know now Where the frost-web window went How the bankrupt solstice spent What the widowed winter leant And as the Night devours The seeds of soiled flowers

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