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NAME

Your name weighs heavy on the tongue, some days
It has been taken hostage by a foreign power
And rendered unpronounceable
Light years away from those simple lines
Traced in Aramaic on red sand
That say, without pretension, ‘I am here’

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneMarch 6, 2020March 26, 2021Posted inPoemsLeave a comment on NAME

NEW YEAR

This year
May we risk believing
That old bruised fruit
Can grow new skin
That the tables in our temples
Can be overturned
Dust shaken from rugs
Threadbare and worn
Their colour renewed

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneJanuary 11, 2018March 29, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:New Year poemLeave a comment on NEW YEAR

PRESENCE

Into the absence
Inert chaos of nil
A word falls
Fires the cosmos
With pure presence
Extracts from grey nonbeing
Energy of light
Divides it from the dark

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneJanuary 1, 2017March 26, 2021Posted inPoemsLeave a comment on PRESENCE

NEW YEAR SPEED BUMP

I drag my case over the man-made border
Between one year and the next
A sleeping policeman
Lying in the road
Marks time in yellow and black
Opens an eye and speaks

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneJanuary 24, 2016March 29, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:New Year2 Comments on NEW YEAR SPEED BUMP

DIEU-MOBILE

Dieu dit
J’en ai marre :
De plus en plus cons
Les hommes creusent la terre
En extraient la moelleMinent le sol sous leurs pieds
Il ne restera plus que des trous
Du gruyère d’ici peu.

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneDecember 21, 2015March 29, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:Christmas, français, NoëlLeave a comment on DIEU-MOBILE

HUSH

Certainty knows so loudly
A fighter-jet
Carving the world
Into soundbites
Mass-produced in bright keys
Belched from its rear end
Filling all space for thought
With static

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneJuly 6, 2015March 29, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:The noise of certaintyLeave a comment on HUSH

A TALE OF TWO WORLDS

Fairy tales
Predictable pleasing
Happy end delivered
Folded and pressed
To the good, never ugly
Vistas of rolled lawns
Patchwork fields
Forests grown on request
Ready-clipped to measured height

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneJuly 5, 2015March 29, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:contrasting situationsLeave a comment on A TALE OF TWO WORLDS

WORDS

Words ride on sound-waves
Across smoky rooms and satellites
They carve out keys
That unlock underground rivers
And spark dry flints
Into fires that buzz
Hum and ignite ideas
Through towns and continents
We must use them well

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneJune 2, 2015March 26, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:Poetry, Use of words, wordsLeave a comment on WORDS

QUEUING IN HEAVEN

Can we choose where we sit
At the eternal church lunch
In that great house of heaven?
Do we have to share a room?
Could it be … dormitories!

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneApril 24, 2015March 29, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:IronyLeave a comment on QUEUING IN HEAVEN

THE CRY – LE CRI : A CHRISTMAS POEM (kind of)

We struggle through life
Dragging carrier bags
Heavy with what we know
But once a year we dream
That the world stops running
Its habitual course
Just long enough
For God to put in
An appearance

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneDecember 22, 2014March 29, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:Bilingual, Christmas, français, NoëlLeave a comment on THE CRY – LE CRI : A CHRISTMAS POEM (kind of)

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