Parallel Poems - March 2013

Written on 30 April 2021.

dark night —
the seed of love
now spent

Written on 30 April 2021.

it is finished!
the charge of sap that drives
my birth to bloom

Written on 30 April 2021.

priestly prayer . . .
a pedophile grooms
his millstone

Written on 30 April 2021.

cold comfort —
a usurer warms himself
with moth balls

Written on 30 April 2021.

silent tomb . . .
the husk of glory
rots within

Written on 23 January 2017.

rehab farm —
unspent shells weather
into ploughshares

Written on 23 January 2017.

autumn rain
the colour splashing out
of her steps

Written on 23 January 2017.

moonstruck —
a river wanders off
in the dark

Written on 08 June 2016.

just for today
the blossom that was
never mine

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