Monday 2 April 2018

Dark Love




She is holding the moon in her hands
Moon and woman rapt in the figure of eight
Infinity that has shattered the sky
Her darkened skirt caught
in the throes of flamenco
Dark Love, she calls it
An embrace that cannot bear
The light of day

Sunday 1 April 2018

White Love




A friend once gave me two beautiful pieces of cut glass art. Companion pieces.
Here is a poem triggered by the first piece.

White Love

She always called it White Love-
A woman raising her arms to the sun
rising out of a purple ocean

Though rimmed with a red aureole
she thought of it for you
at a place where sky meets earth
and circle meets straight
and yin and yang merge

And though she too wears red, her purple head
shows purpose not altogether worldly
and worthy somewhat of you