Seeing as I am busy with lots of things at the moment, I have decided to open up my blog to some very special friends, and will be publishing some of their poems in coming months, as I think they produce some amazing work that deserves whatever little outlet I can offer. I certainly hope to publish some more of my own in due course 🙂
The first guest poet is Katie G, and her beautiful and stirring poem “Listen”…
Listen
Caught between the shiny glare of the morning sun
And the nip of autumn catching my hairMy steps take me through this familiar place
Countless times paths have been trodUnseeing I make my way and back again
A perennial pattern unquestionedWithin the folds of myself there is a rustling
Seeming half smiles drop awayMessages echo into my heart and out again
Written words are the keyNo shy glances or long hard stares,
No soft scents or brushing body partsWords, Words, Words
Turn around in my brainShort clipped texts, pithy rejoinders
Long supple sentences wafting through
250 miles of sharp thin air,burrowing through my steely edges
into my hard won dangerous depths.As the leaves shrivel, surrender and fall
to soften the familiar steps,So you dry out my useless bracken coat
And hold tight to my scratchy skeletonUnflinching you deliver kindness
Seeing in my words hidden buds.
Thank you for publishing this Rob, I am glad it is seeing the light of day and hope it communicates something that makes sense to those reading it xxx
You are welcome. Do you wish me to remove the thank you bit at the end still?! lol xxx
BTW it’s not the last one I will put on here 🙂
You could remove the thank you – its not really meant to be part of the poem!
Think you could put up some more of your ones too! xxx
Ok – it will always be part of it for me though 🙂
I will get round to putting more up sooner or later, lol 🙂 xxx