Lent Challenge - week 3

Spurs versus Stevenage

Expected to lose,

cheered to win, to defy fate

                            and give us all hope.                7.3.12

Journey to work

Pink against the brown

bald, stark tree-lines are softened:

                          blossom has arrived.               8.3.12

Crouched in fear, victims

cringe with each bombardment as

                           Syria self -harms.                 9.3.12

Figures in a field,

caressing it like lovers,

                    detecting the past.              0.3

Pause a moment

Underground posters

ask for ‘acts of kindness’.

Are they so rare that

we have to log them?

Or, is it to make us stop

-          reconsider –

     ask ourselves

When did I last act kindly?

In our beleaguered world,

where price is all,

kind acts cost nothing

but thought and acting upon it.

Perhaps the posters seek celebration

                   of a more selfless world.                11.3      

Dark and fraught with stuff

handbags are pits, deceiving

                        hands groping for keys.               12.3

Standing in a Square

full of squares, in black and white

                     I move like a knight.                     13.3