Tag: landscape poetry

  • Big Fish

    The waves are rushing, breaking on the rocks
    but seas are still inside,
    completely silent.
    Expectant.

  • Summer Day

    Dried tears of rain
    streaking the window.
    Tired late train
    slogging through the dusty landscape.
    Long summer day
    dragging into the past,
    unheeded.

  • Fire

    Smoke slithers along the embers,
    fire dances and undulating
    lines are feminine, rhythmic, slow,
    soft and sinuous, mesmerising…
    Slow time feels sticky, like syrup.

  • Night

    The chilly air tastes a little bitter,
    spiced by the silver light of crescent moon
    and blinking stars continually titter
    this endless night in June.

  • Urban tree

    Calligraphy of naked branches
    against the urban avalanches
    is crisp and clear, like the voices
    of morning birds. There are no choices.
    Breathe in the cold that stops your breath,
    that fills your lungs – your shibboleth
    and drown, happy, in the verse
    of crystal clear universe.

  • Fog

    Black naked branches slither from the fog,
    the only focus in the sea of silence.
    I feel not frightened, but e-stranged.

  • Moon

    The crescent moon
    is trying to climb
    down the branches
    of the naked oak.
    It is stuck.

  • Bubbles

    The bubbles in my glass are rising up and up.
    The breath of invisible fish
    tickles my palate.

  • Look-see

    Cherries soaking up the sun –
    semi-transparent,
    sumptuous,
    filled with liquid sweetness…
    Roses taking the light full-on –
    harsh contrast between the petals,
    drama concretised in colour…
    A fly –
    black hole in space,
    consuming the light completely,
    transforming it into boundless energy,
    incessant buzzing.
    A quiet afternoon
    with time
    to look and see.

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