Tag: time

Edges 

Walking the field edge
birds rise up at my approach
dust motes on the wind

Snow flakes 

There’s snow in the air
fluttering faintly downwards
the white flakes glinting
like falling stars lost in space
until they land and just fade.

Threat

Squawking, fluttering furiously
the goldfinch battles his opponent,
stabbing wildly and savagely in vain
at his own reflection
in the window pane.

Waiting 

Sunlight
through spotted glass
throws misshapen shadows
into the forsaken room while
time waits. 

Differences

I notice her hands are bent, the fingers
sloping away from the index. However,
it does not prevent her from writing long letters.
I think of our time on Milford Sound,
the clouds watering the land, tears of joy in our eyes
and I ask her if she has mentioned that trip.
She looks up: “I just remember the rain”,
she says and simply carries on writing.

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Glenis Moore is a poet who currently lives in the flatlands of the Fens just outside of Cambridge, UK, with her partner and three rescue cats. When she is not writing, she knits, cycles, and runs 10K races slowly. She is the author of the poetry chapbook Pond Life.

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