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Tag: Tuesday Poetics

December 3, 2019December 4, 2019

Of Clouds and Sea

No sky’s completely cloudless, there are clouds we cannot see, tiny breathless drops of hope above a hopeless sea. Although we know it’s boundless, and its waves forever restless, human beings can be feckless in the ocean’s cold embrace, and our bodies spiral, weightless, to the bottom of the sea. But our atoms, although formless, […]

Posted in Poems. Tagged dverse Poets Pub, Less is More, More or Less, Tuesday Poetics. 20 Comments
November 27, 2019

Nettles

We are not subtle, although we blend, green in the midst of green, our sting, our poison bating our green breath with not a quiver. Hiding in the green, we remain unseen, waiting pungently for a patch of skin a recipient for our histamine; we long to puncture a scarlet tattoo, stinging souvenirs. Our hairy, […]

Posted in Poems, Poems Inspired by Artists, Music and Other Writers. Tagged dverse Poets Pub, Nettles, Sylvia and Ted, Tuesday Poetics. 19 Comments
November 20, 2019

Sharp Teeth

I grew up to the sound- track of waves all around this tiny little island where trees offer cool shade and fruit of the brightest colours the one setback was the sharks that lurked in the water and fed on my family bled it dry drop by drop until it was just me in the […]

Posted in Poems. Tagged dverse Poets Pub, Island, Shark, Surrealism, Teeth, Tuesday Poetics. 10 Comments
November 19, 2019

Early Morning Visit from the Owl

In the early hours of morning, my heart swooped from birch to willow when an owl called at the window, a fluty, chilly shiver. Through the tilted slats of the blind, the honeyed amber flash of eyes and fluttering ‘You-ooh-ooh’ drew me to the frost-kissed pane, froze my breath in a cloud of ‘Oh!’ as […]

Posted in Poems. Tagged dverse Poets Pub, Owl, Surrealism, Tuesday Poetics. 27 Comments
November 12, 2019

Star Birth

How much gas does a mother need? Forget the air – there’s none in space. Energy and gravity played their part, pulling together at the heart of the conception, a passionate ménage à trois. A single push excruciatingly long, squeezing an interstellar nebula into a brand-new star, a twinkle in its mother’s eye, a cosmic […]

Posted in Poems. Tagged Birth, dverse Poets Pub, Let us labor, Star, Tuesday Poetics. 28 Comments
November 5, 2019

Without black there would be no contrast

nowhere to hang the moon and stars fireworks and bonfire sparks no colour to express the dog of depression no clarity of words in books no shadows in the sleep-soaked room at night the pair of complicit magpies haunting the garden­ (two for joy) would be all white their once glossy jet feathers and impertinent […]

Posted in Poems. Tagged Black, dverse Poets Pub, Shades, Tuesday Poetics. 33 Comments
October 29, 2019

Your Voice

I have heard songbirds’ over- lapping whistles, the whisper of sparrow wings wheeling on the breeze, raindrops bouncing off dusty autumn paths, and the rattling somersaults of the last leaves from trees. I’ve listened to the sun sizzle into evening, bats flicker in cooling twilight air, snowflakes kissing a frozen window- pane, a cat purring […]

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