Archive - Poems

Today
the sky is filled with cloud,
not a blanket grey
that hugs the sky close
so the air seems dimmed
by the bruise of it,
but a duvet of down  read more »

Give me a feather bed
to lounge the winter in
and a down duvet
to snuggle to my ear.

I hear the snow
will be deep this year  read more »

I have warm slippers
to slip my feet in
as I pad to the dark kitchen.
There is a slice of lemon
in my glug of sparkling water.
The house hums its night song  read more »

Thanks and oh yes
for this bright-folding day
green-girdled and sun-stretched,
heavy with lazy stillness,
stirred but not shaken by  read more »

The ash tree
holds the sky,
biting bits of
blue between its boughs.  But beyond
the sky is full again
and stoops towards the tree
to hold its branches.
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I live
on the shoreline of my family,
wading in waters that keep
our lives breaking against each other,
the noise of the waves
a thrum that energises each thought  read more »

I am God wrapped in God.
I see God with my God
and hear God with my God.
Inside each of my thoughts,
each of my cells,
God dwells, God trembles
with Godlife.  read more »

If I had stayed at home
on this cold-curling morn
I wouldn’t have seen the frost
hang curtains of still leaves  read more »

The wayside plants talk to me
as I pass
in words of brown and green.
‘Hallo’ they say,
‘we haven’t seen you for a while,  read more »

Can words burn?
Can a written voice be lost?
Once lit do they melt back into
the passion that pronounced them
ready to form new sounds  read more »