Yesterday I found a photo
of you at seventeen,
holding a horse and smiling
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: ageing, family, identity, Owen Sheers, relationships
Yesterday I found a photo
of you at seventeen,
holding a horse and smiling
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: ageing, family, identity, Owen Sheers, relationships
Then
self-pity dries up, a joy
untainted by guilt lifts her.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: ageing, Denise Levertov, gender, loneliness, relationships, solitude
I am very bothered when I think
of the bad things I have done in my life.
Categories: Poetry
Tagged: free verse, injury, obsession, relationships, Simon Armitage, unsettling