I followed your path,
at a distance.
You like the sun,
or any volatile star
burning a streak
towards the horizon.
A scorching vision
to those of us
watching, waiting.
Aware
that you would set
before us.
Terrified of dusk.
Sensing its arrival
anyway.
Tag / Poetry
Upon Introduction #WeekendWritingPrompt
I remember you tiny,
barely a handful
yet fully formed.
Face screwed
into a perfect grimace.
So put out
that you were here
again
to do this all over
with this
unimpressive lot.
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A Dangerous Enthral – #WeekendWritingPrompt
It’s an odd moment
when you recognise
his fingers for pins
pressed through
your skin,
and into the wall
behind.
Must be the same
panic,
as an insect
caught up
in spider silk.
Not all shimmer
is gold.
Too late
to be free
without loosing
something
perhaps all
of you, yourself,
in the struggle.
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Callous Carefree – #WeekendWritingPrompt
You shed it all
despite my begging,
and became so light
I lost you.
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Out In The Garden – #DVersePoets #MondayHaibun
The peas have podded. I’m not sure if it’s the snap, or your bog standard, good old trusty garden type, but they’ve podded first with the white petals of the flowers still stuck to the green of their shells.
Inside the crop is still too small, too young. I checked today. Popped my nail into the seam, slit through the flesh, cracked it open. New growth, old book. They both sound the same.
They are not ready for harvest, but when you bite down they explode. They taste like spring, or summer, or something else that’s hot days and sudden rain storms. They tasted like they should do. New and fresh.
It’s been a wet one,
this spring, this downpour of water
thickening the green.
Carol J Forrester 
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