Blog Posts – Poetry
Touch
I cannot hold your hand today, friend or stranger, when we meet. I take instead the rose’s leaf, ‘hold me’, [...]
Another anniversary. Another poem.
Eighteen Even now, it's as if no time at all has gone. But you have. You have; and [...]
Like a brave green shoot
Burns night hope, 2021 Oh my hope is like a new green shoot that's reaching for the sun. Oh, [...]
Last Christmas
For Christmas 2019 and 2020 (and the rest) Last Christmas gave us a fright, lines of dazzling light, searing wounds [...]
Tucked in
these clean flannelette sheets smell like the cupboard in which they sat through the warm months, waiting, and remind me [...]
still, I ache
life with chronic fatigue I swam to move the muscles: still, the flame raged. I soaked to loose the muscles: still, the [...]
Touch
I cannot hold your hand today, friend or stranger, when we meet. I take instead the rose’s leaf, ‘hold me’, [...]
Another anniversary. Another poem.
Eighteen Even now, it's as if no time at all has gone. But you have. You have; and [...]
Like a brave green shoot
Burns night hope, 2021 Oh my hope is like a new green shoot that's reaching for the sun. Oh, [...]
Last Christmas
For Christmas 2019 and 2020 (and the rest) Last Christmas gave us a fright, lines of dazzling light, searing wounds [...]
Tucked in
these clean flannelette sheets smell like the cupboard in which they sat through the warm months, waiting, and remind me [...]
still, I ache
life with chronic fatigue I swam to move the muscles: still, the flame raged. I soaked to loose the muscles: still, the [...]