Wand Poets

We propel and pull

Past loneliness.


Our headiness,

Halfway falling

And all a-tiptoe tap


Upon our seesaw's

Sea shattered slats.


A pair of persian pierrots

With baby bache

On our back


As the swinging anchor

Restless

Ticks off

Our tri-soul's fragile minutes,


Our fat love watches on,

Waiting out,


The rumble tumble lift


The stratospheric soar


To a scene

Beyond the shore




*bache is persian for child






This day has closed too soon

I am standing on the cold stones

of the humming garden alone

thinking of you.


When will you come?

autumn whispers through the trees.

Are you there in the streets

watching me as my heart starts  to numb



Anya Nin


Lay, languidly in my dreams


Lay, languidly in my dreamy mornings

With you a new dawning.


In my dreams and heart

Your sonorous voice

Enraptures me

And leads me on course.


So lay languidly

In my dreamscapes.


Life is as we give,


We make



Charles Wiseman





You and me babe

To the end.


Through loneliness

And craziness,


This natural seesaw

That anchors

And lifts off

propels and pulls.


We make demands,

command,


But beneath it all,


I want

You

And you want me


and we want to be

Three,


You and me,


And the one

In between


And life really is as

As simple

As that




River Ambler

 

When I stand on Battersea Bridge with you,

I wonder why I ever went out,


Stomping the pavements of Europe

With my limp torn Baedecker

Fraying in the heat


Why did I crave to see first hand

The stories I gorged on through winters,


When our bones contain all the world,


And you alone,

in your ambling way,


Can knit us into being.


Laura Hymers

Loose Words


There is a thing called a poem

like a moonbeam held in the palm

gone as soon as it is remembered


There is a memory of who I once was

before I knew that I was

the first time I saw my face in the mirror


There is a mirror, a bright shiny thing

that stands between you and I

and cracks as I reach in and cut my hand


There is a scar on my hand from the day

I shattered that mirror. Do you remember?

It was blue and you said its reflection told lies


There is  mirror that I hold

in this scar that is my memory

that I give to you  here in this poem



Laura Hymers
















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