Wednesday March 18th
Plants
tucked into soil
Feed
our hopes for growth, bees, moths,
Beauty
in the wings.
Thursday March19th
Consider
blossom
It
brings light to dark places
How
can we do that?
Friday March 20th
Loss
Sometimes
the mind plays tricks,
Anniversaries
slip away
Almost
unheeded, then
As
if to make up time
Loss
swoops in
Shattering
sturdy barricades.
Babies
who should have been,
Should
now be grown with lives
Being
lived, part of their own
And
our, families:
Identities,
characters,
loved
and cherished
But
weren't able to gain life,
Lost
in the word, 'miscarriage'.
'What
might have been.....'
sterile
thoughts, but they
peep
out sometimes.
Love
which didn't happen
Was
channelled elsewhere.
Loss
has been aired today
Looked
at, valued, but even so
I
think I'll rebuild the barricade.
Saturday March 21st
Londonderry
One God, two beliefs:
Division
But old foes burn their past
To begin friendship.
Sunday March 22nd Monday March 23rd
Richard 111rd's re-burial.
Bones betray our past:
Curvature of the spine
Sword cuts, axe swipes,
Richard's mortal blow perhaps.
All tell their tale to those
Who can read the clues.
Once a man, a king, whose skull
Once held memories of the deeds
We debate so hard now.
Grey-friars Priory held his bones
But walls fell, stones 'borrowed',
Monks dispersed, graves were lost,
Til a car park hid all
Plantagenet traces.
Crowds stand in awed hush as
The bier moves through modern streets,
White roses arc to rest beside
His coffin on his last ceremonial journey.
The University give him to the Church
The Church blesses his soul and
God's gift, if given, will bring him peace.
Death in 1485 is honoured now.
As witnesses our sense of time
Flickers between realities,
His discovered bones
in their curve of death
Makes the past a present
But his truth remains obscured.
Tuesday March 24th
Deadly silken threads
Woven round leaves lure their prey
With evil beauty.
