Famous Long Miss You Poems

Bridge Over The Aire Book 2

 STANDING IN EDEN





1



Poetry claimed me young on Skegness beach

Before I was born I answered her cry

For a lost child still in the womb still

As the seawave journeying green upon green

Swollen in my mother’s side lashed and

Tongue-tied on a raft of premonition

Trying to survive my birth as the soul

Survives death turned in on the tide high

Watermarked as a bride to my beginning.



In April rain the banks were white narcissi

Yellow daffodils in Chapeltown alyssum at the

Foot of every tree white bands round the boles

Against the blackout still after fifty years

In the copse at Chapeltown the fences down the

Undergrowth cleared the bark exposed with scars

Like stars.



I am grounded in Chapeltown from dawn to dusk

Curfewed by my body’s husk I dream of ‘Swan Lake’

Car after car swan after swan across the stage

The mad conductor’s baton raised dying swans

Flying from the wings fading on the last chords

In the hyaline air by the crystal river where

We surrendered to its flow.





2



In Roundhay’s Canal Gardens go a pair of black swans

Scarlet beak to scarlet beak bend by the willow

Necks arched like the great bow of Odysseus;

Ithaca, I have returned, my Penelope lost, the tapestry

Of my journey torn, Troy long gone, a blind memory

In Homer’s song: I sing...
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