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Requiem
A friend sent me this poem when my gran died a few years ago. (Summerland is the pagan equivalent of Heaven.) It’s so beautiful I wanted to share it.
The Ballad of The Outlaws’ Clearing
With his thick black hair falling o’er his neck, gleaming blue-black, like jays in the sun, He cleaned out the spurs on his best riding boots; spat and polished the barrel of his… Continue reading
Gone
And so in then end it comes to this, The words I long lamented over To convey the way I feel End up being spoken into the emptiness That consumes me, Not heard… Continue reading
Haunted By Interior Ghosts
Here, Emily Dickinson perfectly captures what it is to be trapped inside the screaming vortex one’s own depression. In the dark chamber of our mind, at once desolate yet teeming with ghouls, all… Continue reading
A Red, Red Rose
In celebration of Burns Night!
The Sprinter
Dawn breaks, bringing forth the light of all beings. Blinking in the first rays of the sun, crouching, bouncing A restless seduction, The sprinter’s nose traces the horizon, a primal lens As eternal,… Continue reading
Mice
I remember this one from my childhood!
The Brightness of your Eyes
I don’t know what this poem is called or who it’s by (not us, sadly!); it was found by a friend of ours. Be most grateful if anyone can help.
