The new Write Out Loud Poem of the Week is ‘Rose Petals', by Nicola Beckett. On her brief profile summary she says she has been “dubbed a confessional poet”. One reader of the poem described it as “beautiful”, with “its own gentle kind of flow”.  

 

Rose Petals

by Nicola Beckett

 

Somewhere there's a box,

Dusty now

How white the dress was

Always,

A bench,

On the hills

A tree in the forest,

Catch them,

If only we could,

Be as kind,

In life,

As in death

She's in the water

Take heed,

Photos of her

So precious now.

If only.

We could,

Turn back time,

Petals on the breeze.

The scripts written

It's only part of the game.

Cold water

Ignore the sparrows

Let them chatter

If only you listened

To the love....

Not the numbers.