Selfish Act
This selfish act is not for me but for the ones that I leave I know they will […]
Project Tag: poem
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Of Loss
You walked walked out the door out of our lives of life of this earth this existence no […]
If, in times of Covid
If, you find yourself alone and adrift when all around you are swimming walking, running, dancing for charity […]
Where Have All The Homeless Gone?
Where have all the homeless gone?Where have all the homeless gone? No one walks the streets at nightno […]
Walking in Circles
Waiting for eventual summer wishing long days into existence hoping for a vaccinated future praying for an immune […]
Transcendence of Fields
We had walked this road before smell of fresh turned earth grind of machines making furrows the brown […]
The Pit and the Pandemic
Old rings of summers past turn to ash the carbon captured in arboreal growth released in the nocturnal […]
Ecclesiatical Arch
The arch frames the view defining the world a glimpse of a false reality illusory real life that […]
Mask
We wear our masks we nod we talk with our eyes to greet with hidden face no smile […]
Change Is Hard
Change is hard, a truth carved in stone ordained by God and written with quill on scrolls and […]
Broken Earth
Seven weeks of hidingand the earth breaths relief...Seasons of stormsangered colour coded weatherbattered shores stonedshifting sands reappear disappearthe […]
The Wet November
On waking I would stretchthen listen to clues while hopingin the curtained roomthe light blinded out for sleepingthere […]
My Arm
My arm wraps over a lifelifted with the deep inhalationquiet nasal rhythm drawing airexpelling carbon unwantedI embrace the […]
Cocoon
Looking in to the blue the dome of incarcerationthat seems at once to beinfinite and minuscule trapped into my limited […]
The Two Kilometre Radius
Under the elderly limbs of the neglectedonce proud sentries lining thoroughfare their bent shapes overgrown with ivya guard once […]
Distant Farewell
You were there when my screams were bornin your arms sating my hunger the milk of motherhoodfeeding with […]
Intrusion of Lawn Care on Isolation
Feeling the gentle heat of the stretching days adjusting to the seasonthe silver edge of the grey cloud […]
Spare Change
Sitting at the round table, two thousand and twelveWith a view of the gardens and a sunny morningSouthside […]
Unseen
My form beneath hardened blackreticulate limbs joined in purpose stability in the pores of the earththe unseen strength of […]
Opus Dei
The days of the coat hangerand the shameful trip abroadsecret children hidden awaylaundries awash with Magdalene shame.Have respect […]