Mike Smith
Here's a poem from notebook 40, the 2nd in fact...
by Mike Smith
Low-lying cloud,
sheep’s wool snagged on wire,
rain washed.
Plantation trees plain stitched
across the hills’
ribbed sleeve.
Black holes punched in grey
the stippled lake
but no breeze.
Bird-calls; not song.
Make no mistake.
No-one sings here
among the evergreens along
the water’s edge.
Only warning calls
give tongue to fears
of what might come to...
Read more and leave comments (7)
Sunday 1st April 2012 5:17 pm
Tags: poem,nature,autumn,loss
Filter Tag
poem (Remove)
Previous Entries
- 2012 (1)
Recent Comments
Yvonne Brunton on Ullswater Requiem (7) (Sun, 13 May 2012 06:08:38 pm)
Yvonne Brunton on Ullswater Requiem (2) (Fri, 4 May 2012 09:57:48 pm)
ray miller on Ullswater Requiem (2) (Fri, 4 May 2012 08:49:55 pm)
Chris Co on Ullswater Requiem (1) (Fri, 4 May 2012 11:48:42 am)
Roy Chetham on Ullswater Requiem (1) (Fri, 4 May 2012 11:30:56 am)
ray miller on Ullswater Requiem (1) (Thu, 3 May 2012 01:16:44 pm)
Yvonne Brunton on All Things Are Connected (Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:55:54 pm)
Tommy Carroll on All Things Are Connected (Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:26:19 pm)
Mike Smith on and the next one is..... (Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:02:49 pm)
M.C. Newberry on and the next one is..... (Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:15:37 pm)
steve pottinger on and the next one is..... (Mon, 16 Apr 2012 09:16:22 am)
Yvonne Brunton on and the next one is..... (Sun, 15 Apr 2012 07:52:25 pm)
Innocentia Sithole on A different sort of poem..... (Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:49:58 pm)
steve pottinger on A different sort of poem..... (Thu, 12 Apr 2012 05:29:52 pm)
Nick Clifton on A different sort of poem..... (Mon, 9 Apr 2012 11:29:08 am)
