I drive alone down misty roads
where the morning’s frost still lingers
on the earth, grass, leaves unreached
by the feeble winter sun
whose fingers slowly withdraw
into the white blankness
of unmoving air.
The road bends as it climbs between
the shadowed pines and
leaping across the road
two roe deer, almost always two,
run from the shrouded trees
slowing my progress as I scan for more
to disappear again in depths of forest.
Higher the road climbs these mystic hills
higher still until the sky appears
that clear blue dry-air winter sky
full of all light but bereft of warmth.
I think of home, as I clear the misty hills,
mystic still but now illuminated
by the light of memory, of love departed,
thoughts of you beside me
almost always you beside me.
As I drive alone out of the higher ground
the frost still lingers but the feeble sun
has banished the obscuring mists
full of all light but now
bereft of warmth.
Categories:
monts, bereavement, extended metaphor, nature,
Form: Free verse
N'ayant plus son corps galbé dans mes bras,
Je ne peux plus trouver rien de chaud.
Le ciel m'apparaît constamment bien bas,
Qu'il fasse de l'orage ou qu'il fasse beau.
Tous les jours je cherche ses pas,
En pensée, par monts et par vaux;
Chaque nuit, sous l'appât de ses appas,
Je rêve d'elle et de caresser sa peau.
Les pantoufles froides, le parfum croupissant,
Veulent à la dérobée rappeler leur maîtresse d'antan.
Plein la chambre, les câlins et chuchotements révolus font la navette,
Se demandent avidement où le fil de mon journal intime va s'aboutir.
Douloureusement la réalité décevante émerge de la cachette,
Toujours est-il que ma songerie diaprée tarde toujours à s'engloutir.
Categories:
monts, lost love, missing, true
Form: Sonnet
Vicky is an archer, born on the 14th of April,
In 1977, and started getting that archery thrill,
In 2010 when she competed for the first time:
She found archery thru a friend’s lucid dime.
She lives in Malvern in Worcester, England,
So she trains in Lillishall in Shropshire’s land,
At the National Sports & Conference Centre,
Where there are facilities and lots of banter.
Her coach since 2013 is Rikki Bingham, tough,
She’s right-handed, not left, it does the stuff,
Vicky throws 26” long arrows at weight 24lbs,
And she went international in 2014, grounds.
Indeed, at the Euro Para events in Switzerland,
She shoot a new WR to get a silver garland,
Then at the Para Worlds, in Holland at Almere,
She won a bronze and a coherent team silver.
And then in 2016 again at the European Paras,
But this time in Saint Jean de Monts in France,
Vicky gained another individual bronze medal,
So she is also going to Rio de Janeiro to treadle.
Categories:
monts, body, sports, strength, world,
Form: Heroic Couplet