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Love (1) – Poem: love as a gift not a possession

TweetLove (1) The little girl with sun-rapt smile skipped with joy among the wild flowers Entranced she grasped lovingly the tender stems clutching beauty to her innocent heart then she cried bitter guiltless tears when she found the loveliness she held so dear before its time had died killed by love

The Eagle’s Last Flight – Poem: eagles mate for life

TweetThe Eagle’s Last Flight His mate gone the eagle soared into the high places grief-driven wings beat the air in angry futile desperation higher and higher faster and faster his passion drove him towards the baleful sun the watchers waited bate-breathed for the weariness the exhaustion of flight to bring the eagle down to earth […]

The Scarf – Poem: memory, loss, love

TweetThe Scarf You are dust, seeding the careless wind the form of absence is your presence now yet your living essence lingers, real to sense in the fibres of your scarf I touch, caress, and breathe you in, fold you round me in unfriendly sleep this sense of you, as ever stubborn, clings to this […]