The last light of day illuminates your hand, long fingers, short nails. Hands that spell out that you are a man, other to me, my own hand is lost in yours and yet fits as it should. Shadow is on your face, but the gleam is in your eyes, the windows to your truth andContinue reading “Poem#24 You”
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Poem#23 Bard
Not the day of his birth, his coming to this world, but the date his christened William Shakespeare. Now four centuries since he passed away. He dwelt among folk of many races, since trade with the east brought spice, cloths, religions, philosophies. Thus he wrote a richness that few have matched. Puns andContinue reading “Poem#23 Bard”
Poems# 20& 21
No words to say On either day
Poem#19 The Sun Cries
A Princess is born to wealth, comfort, ease and privilege. Just down the road a child dies of injuries from his mother. Six thousand miles away, a child dies of starvation, her cousin maimed by a bomb, their mothers raped to death. Journeys are made across an unkind sea. In the bright blue sky, the sunContinue reading “Poem#19 The Sun Cries”
Poem#18 Haiku
Lion’s teeth embrace the gale they know pain must be felt from the well of loneliness
Poem#17 Also…Poet
He comes from a broken home – the child to fix a marriage of huge egos. He was two and his sister a decade older, so he was like an only child, and became the family mascot – the clown, craving love, validation. Attention seeker, he could draw, he could act, he was gifted andContinue reading “Poem#17 Also…Poet”
Poem#16 One Thousand Cranes
Make a wish, Japan. Make your paper cranes. Broken bridges, fallen homes, Lights are out, don’t let hope die. Was it cranes That placed you on the ring of fire? Two shakings in two days as the earth fights itself. You must weep, Japan. Then set about folding one thousand cranes.
Poem#15 Fairytale Ending
That wonderful, unbreakable, glass slipper which fell from her foot unscathed Why did it stay under the spell whilst the dress, the carriage and even her hair returned to their normal state? Why was there a decree that every woman in the land should try on the unsmashed shoe? Who would expect maids or cleanersContinue reading “Poem#15 Fairytale Ending”
Poem#14 Nights Lately
In the early hours I looked out my window, the ink black sea, the sky crowded with stars. The glow of the Mother Ship was coming through the harbour mouth. I knew it because for seven nights the sound like trucks had filled my ears. Neighbours have said they were for the slurry, exposed byContinue reading “Poem#14 Nights Lately”
Poem#13 The Bird
As a child, I recall coming home with my family finding a dead bird lying on the ground below a large window. Its neck was broken, my Dad advised , hurrying to remove it from our sight, but somehow handing me a handkerchief. Why would a bird break its neck flying? I pondered until DadContinue reading “Poem#13 The Bird”
