This is how you'll see me.
Tuesday 28 May 2024
T
MF
Friday 8 March 2024
IWD 2024
Wednesday 7 February 2024
Resolution
Fully. Wholly. Holy.
She took off being lonely.
Held. Heard. Unfurled.
She put on being lowly.
Him
You slowly stripped
our souls.
With fists that dripped
malevolence.
Words that chipped
holes.
Into our bones.
One
disappointed
sentence
at
a
time.
A List poem on Grief
Absence louder than presence
Pervasive pain
Ruining my egg sandwich
Tastes good with a red
A long held longing
For that forever gone
The dead and the dying
The fear and the flying
Who am I without them
My edges shaped by loss
The thick of night before dawn
The day which never comes
Surprising laugher
Guiltily smothered
A hushed embrace
The silence of those
Who don't want to get it wrong
Carrying a quiet void
Not quite hidden by eyeliner
That ever shifting sand
Oh I think I'm ok now
And then I am drowning.
Fire
I am unafraid of the apocalypse
For it already lies within me.
The burning bush is no matter
When my insides are aflame.
The destruction that abounds
Is no match for the unceasing
Screaming of my soul.
Cliffs
I walked too close to the edge
For far too many years
Obedience and pain the same
My friend the path of fear.
But my feet are planted now
My eyes are on the sea
Where safety was a far off dream
Is now a joy to me.
Birthday Beginnings
She closed the gate on her worry
And shut the door on her fears.
She lay down with her Good Shepherd
Let Him whisper in her ears
"This year is yours for freedom love"
So she let the still waters in.
The tide that washed the pain away
Is the current that lets life begin.
Collioure
Those streets that keep
My childhood sleep
With no record of the score
Where pain is lost and tossed
Like waves
And I ate cherries on the shore.
Tuesday 18 April 2023
Sabbath
A ribbon loosed by the breeze.
Sunday 1 January 2023
Sunday 16 October 2022
He is Home
“When the ground around feels fragile
And your feet falter
Go slow then and know
A French Revolution of My Own
Thursday 24 March 2022
The value of a refugee
Friday 4 March 2022
International Women’s Day 2022
Thursday 1 July 2021
On Hiking
She walked
into
the
forest
to lose her head
but found again,
her soul.
She grew in that space
and came out taller
than the trees themselves,
full of their majesty
and peace.
Monday 22 March 2021
Crippling Entitlement
Today he thought he’d hold her hand
but there was a crash as the
stand
fell and the man rolled
broken but not
old
his body was
cold.
Wet air in but not enough out
he retained it all
yet couldn't
recall
the name of his son.
One by one
the levels dropped short
as his heart
fought
and his family grew
fraught
while @LozzaFox
caught
a ball with a friend and said
"I am a fierce liberal and I am wrong."