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Category Archives: My Poems
Finding my writer’s voice – A poem
How predictable,those stuck patternsploughed deep.Pathways fashioned from fearin a fuddled brainfounded on the dull painOf a child’s poor parenting.Reductive habitsthat keep me smallStuck, shut tighton a blank page,With a NO of defeat. Until….. With a YES to writefrom flexibility and … Continue reading
CONNECTION
When your life feels too smalland your path becomes lonely,those around you are strangersand facing tomorrowis a mountain to climb,Remember the small things;the face of a babya break in the cloudsa flower in full bloom.Can you find somethingin your imperfect … Continue reading
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Deep Time
Have you visited a shorelinewhere a pebble caught your eye?Have you slowed down to absorbits colours – patterns – shape?How it fits your hand so cold and smooth,dead weight of stone that’s eons old. Maybe wet, it’s a shining jewelthen … Continue reading
Between Two Worlds
Standing in that cuspwhere twilight meets the dark,the thinnest veil of misthangs in dampened silenceunder autumn trees.All movement ceases now,no creatures of the nightare stirring from their rest.No sounds to break this spellthat sits between two worlds. Just a tired … Continue reading
Spring Awakening – a revised poem by Ardhan Swatridge
Days of winter wet, overcoat days and duck down nights.We wake to analyse the shuttered light, peering through the gloom,and listen for the signs of windblown leaves or spattered rain;our blanket moods grown heavy with the wait. But today is … Continue reading
Another Chance – by Ardhan Swatridge
A new poem by Ardhan (Paul) Swatridge – October 2019 We learned so much: How not to trust, how not to feel and if we did, to hide our fear our loneliness, our inner truth, at any cost. The rules … Continue reading
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Wild One – Record of a dream, written on a train, given to a stranger
I know I am alive, but forget to remember and rejoice. So now, awake, I celebrate, Defying the numbness of my normal life. In my dream I glow And move with a singing vibrancy. I flow, with the current of … Continue reading
Ode to Misha
Born in the forest Brought by her mother Fearful and timid Infested and starving She begged us to keep her This traumatised puppy So cute and appealing We couldn’t deny her The chance of a home But she tested our … Continue reading
A Winter of Words
In a winter of words the verbal garden hibernates. The streams dry up in a drought of expression, a writer’s depression. It is pencil down-time where poetry lies fallow; barren silence on a blank page. It’s a waiting time, a … Continue reading
Men’s Rights of Passage
Exposed chests drip fresh blood to the earth below. The mirror smashed; red dark cave of grief and despair. Alone together – in silence, sweet surrender. Let this death sink in. Scars on the inside release the puss of ancient … Continue reading
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