Thursday, 24 September 2020

A Poem a Day (262): Clouds

 
Clouds 
 
There are many things we only think of,
never giving voice. Invisible struggles faced
 
in numb fortitude. Cold blue mornings rife
with a surprising optimism, streaked out
 
and diced with clouds of grey by lunchtime.
Step inside hands filled to the brim
 
with listening, chance a second out.
They say “get a grip”, I see you slip
 
away into any shade of wordless right.
You make tall between mirrors of hate,
 
a negative energy unyielding. Position left
of field. A meandering river of applause.
 
The broadness of the oak line distils breath,
brings oxygen to your empty fallen places.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, September 24, 2020

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