Poetry ⁽⁹⁾

The cold expanse of winter, smothers with it's cloak of grey, gruelling days and darkest nights, still-death seems here to stay. Winter's love, a cold embrace, a heartless lack of norms. All give, no take, a withering, fraught with violent storms. The skyward race of…

A warm arm to snuggle, and a scary witchy laugh, the best walk to school each day, and a reminder when to bath. A story at bed time, and a wake-up call at dawn, a spoon to lick when cake was made, and football on…

You opened your eyes, and opened my heart, your innocence peering up from my arms. Time stopped in my world, all done was all done, by this life I must keep from all harms.  A lazy blink, a bright eye, the faintest hint of a…

Cold rain on the window pane, wind rushing through the tree. Dark sky, boiling clouds, storms damp fingers caressing me. A Memory stirs, Africa's grass, a rushing curtain of rain. Smell the air, hot damp earth, storm's scent etched in my brain. Hear the rain…