I V I V
I love thee
but please know this of me
I also have feelings for holly
I V I V
I love thee
but please know this of me
I also have feelings for holly
The country has a different sky tonight; a thicker cloud of stars before the sun has softly sunk. The country has a different sound tonight; birdsong, carefree free-hearted laughter. The country has a different taste tonight; sweetly spiced and cool fresh water. The country is different from itself tonight and there is no explanation.
muse appears on summer’s first day
flowers round her shaven head
oak trees shadow faces
thoughts and feelings wed
stars shoot, fall at night
– sacred imagination –
then the clouds blow in
changes ebb and flow
haar undercutting sunshine
below the surface
take a fresh green look
at the broken listening
permit the freedom
she left his life
like a song floating skyward
last notes in the distance
fading to birdsong
he paints the ceiling
with swirls of stars
and watches them in the closed-eye darkness
every odd-shaped interval
a single star gold-silver falls
till sleep or morning comes
Sunrise there, way over there,
Way over beyond where the earth bends its shoulder
To see where the morning might come from
Sunrise that colour, the colour of that flower,
That flower, oh you know it,
That flower whose heads hang on the sunken green footways
Where carts used to trundle
And the cumulonimbus, the clouds that a child drew,
The clouds of a fluffy-inked ankle tattoo,
They now frame the distance of soon silver linings
And the sunrise lightens my darkness.
after hearing the voices
and stories of pain
my brain needs power-washing
with sunlight or rain