Tag Archive | parting
Morning breaks
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
? The light of the morning wakened me And the song of the blackbird in the tree. I close my eyes to the mocking beams My ears to the song sung not for me. I cannot bear the sweetness of the day That fills with light the empty space…
More moon poems
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
Two moon haikus All hurt all sorrow washed in the moon’s silver flood night breeze murmurs low Moon sings silver songs falling through the velvet night broken hearts listen Curled in silence Around our pain We wait for the dawn When we will go Our separate ways And the…
I know a place
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
I know a place where the roses blow Where we’d lie and watch the clouds go by At evening we’d listen to the linnet’s song While the colours changed in the sunset sky. I know a place where the river runs Past a wild plum tree where the blackbird…
Streetlight
Originally posted on Jane Dougherty Writes:
We stand on the corner Between noisy bars That strew their rubbish Beneath the stars. From your stinging words, Ill-concealed disdain, I turn and run Through tears of rain. And the rain shafts cold Through the orange light Of the streetlamps’ glare That obscures the night. And your words,…
Viv Drewa - The Owl Lady 