Snowdrops swept like a white water river through the trees

Hope to see you TOMORROW. Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 31st January 1.00pm hosted by @anniecsky.bsky.social We are delighted to have the lovely @carolsheppard.bsky.social as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share. @josephinelay.bsky.social @gloswriters.bsky.social

Please don’t forget this event is on a week today. Poetry Cafe at Chelt. Library will be on Friday 31st January 1.00pm hosted by @anniecsky.bsky.social We are delighted to have the lovely @carolsheppard.bsky.social as guest. Join us & bring a poem to share. @gloswriters.bsky.social

This is a poem about the sea, and it's one of my favourites from Scottish poet Ali Whitelock, who lives in Australia. From her collection The Lactic Acid in the Calves of Your Despair (2020).

Good night my friends 🕊️💙🦋

Simic's most Yorkshire poem

We walked the Hohenzollen Bridge / its monstrous solid steel arches so strong / that even rumbling trains twenty carriages long / hardly made the floor murmur

And with her last breath the sun tore the sky to shreds...