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Mountain story
The endless civil war Of rock and rain Wind and fire Is written on this land In letters starkly illuminated By morning’s spilt gold. Crowned with ice And mantled in infinite blue These stern peaks Teach geography With the ardour of magma And th...
Maze
I wander lost in the maze of my life Not knowing which way I want to go Not knowing how to get there if I did Not even knowing if it’s already too late If the choices I’ve taken so far mean That some of the exits I might hope to find Have...
Memories
Exhausted from grieving and the deadly bureaucracy of burial and inheritance. I sit sifting the stacked residue of my parents’ lives. Shuffling aside decades of paper I lift a grey-cream cardboard flap and life leaps out in a blaze of colour. A woo...
Awkward doubts - two poems
Awkward questions I was once a rather quiet sceptic. Tolerant of others’ cherished illusions, (even those that seemed rather septic) and unwilling to provoke confusion. Why should I dampen their enthusiasm with awkward questions and doubts that mig...
Smell of the earth
I smell green, I smell damp The soft soil, bruised by my steps Emits smells strong as a skunk But infinitely sweeter (green, damp) I smell puddle, I smell pool Fresh or stagnant, sweet or bitter The moist breath of water meanders Around me, murmuring...
