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THE BIRD THAT FINALLY LOST IT

I am the songbird that swears.

No tamed caged fowl, me
With garish green wings
No sir ! I rattle those bars
And I mean to soar
Over tower blocks out
To the cliffs and the sea

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneDecember 16, 2021December 18, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:lockdown, Poetry

NEGATIVE SPACE

Roadworks and the anxious
Shout of inner voices
Fills all headroom
With concrete

Absence of noise
Dissolves the mortar
Pours back the oxygen
Of liquid air

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneApril 10, 2021April 10, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:lockdownLeave a comment on NEGATIVE SPACE

THE VOICE OF SILENCE

There is the silence of air and space
In which breathing is a momentous act
And contemplation stretches like a long beach in the sun
Of limitless horizons

There is the muffled deadness which descends
Like the padded ceiling of a too-small room
Left windowless to the imagination
Which can no longer sing

Posted bymaryfeatherstoneJuly 18, 2020March 29, 2021Posted inPoemsTags:lockdown1 Comment on THE VOICE OF SILENCE

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