Poem Category: Miscellaneous

The Cathedral
woken
with a thunder clap.

Ice-cream parlour
a passing school girl’s
sudden pirouette.

Burnt-out neighbours
yet was their chimney
just whistling wind.

Incoming tide
sky blue seeps
into horse-shoe bay.

A rock climb
brushing my shadow
the tumble of a stone.

Vacuum bottles
the slurp of cooked peaches
spilling warm and sweet.

Grandmother talking softly
her tea-pot’s coloured
old and knitted cosy.

Nearly midnight
the brief case stealing
the bus driver’s eyes.

Hospital bed
on my return from the tunnel
of enfolding white light.

The white rose
bending with snow
suddenly yellow.