IV Meetings – Page 2

Now

4.00am and the streets are deserted,nothing but hard frost on the pavementsparkling in the lamplight. Somewhere behind me I hear a car,the petrol engine murmuring and then the sound ofthe tyres on the road, disappearing into the distance. A fox crosses the pavement right in front of meintent on some purpose that has consumed herContinue reading “Now”

Lost and found

Lost and foundAbout 15 years agomy life was beautiful and filled with hope,then it became ugly and then uglier,I don’t know why, I thought of reasons,I thought of nothing but reasons, none of them kind,but I didn’t really know why and even if I hadI doubt that it would have helped very much,somewhere I knewContinue reading “Lost and found”

Soup

What will happen to my poetrywhen I take all the seeking out,all the images of journeys, struggles,trains and pathways, when I just want tobe where I am because that’s where God is? What will happen whenmy breath is company enoughand I no longer need cynicismto protect me from the painof my unrealized dreamsor shadows toContinue reading “Soup”