poetry

If love was rain – 68 words

February 13, 2024 By Ellen

If love was rain Check the forecast. Again. Unseasonably damp or drought? Incantation for precipitation. Then, ah -refreshing, quenching, fresh. Plashing, plopping. You know -green shoots, petrichor, yada. Stand barefoot, gasping and drenched – torrentially triumphant. Drinking it deep until – there’s floods, cancellations. Driving drizzle and damn – now the roof leaks. Drips […]

Prickly Hedge – 100 words

June 12, 2023 By Ellen

Prickly hedge Don’t touch Don’t get too close Don’t look at me so I feel dirty Don’t presume Don’t tell me who I am Don’t be late Don’t make my decisions Don’t stand me up Don’t tell me what to think Don’t use me for your jokes Don’t turn your back Don’t tell […]

Priorities – 100 words

May 30, 2023 By Ellen

Priorities Will the world be better with my poem in it? We won’t find out if I hang out the laundry first, or answer emails and scroll some internet fluff. The world may not care what I write about varifocals or politicians or heatwaves, but it won’t get the chance to judge if […]

Dryad – 100 words

May 23, 2023 By Ellen

Dryad I’m young in the woods with new-hatched insects, buzzing busy, and idle hop birds, indolent and dusty. I can see child hands, pressed on rock, in sand, digging and wriggling with worms or gleaming beetles, palm of night-green leaf crush. Kneeling to work and study knobbles under canopy ferns: my nest, […]

Imposter – 100 words

May 9, 2023 By Ellen

Imposter I used to have a hat. It was beautiful with a dashing brim made of the softest emerald felt the colour of spring moss with a feather that swooped. I swished a cape around me it was green like midnight forests and the velvet stroked my back. It fastened at my throat with […]