Souter Poems - Poems about Souter

Nature in a Mischievous Mood

...Nature in a Mischievous Mood

Early Sunday morning; 
nature rattling at the front door!
I accept its clamorous invitation 
stepping out with nothing more
in tow than an upturned collar..
and a...

Autumn

...Autumn

….. is mortally wounded!
It stumbles, tumbles 
across the silken, rouged sky
quivering over rusted hedges
shivering through shouldered trees,
splattering, smattering 
everything in bl...

The Return

...The Return 

The quietness spreads thickly,
the atmosphere even thicker.
Nature has lost its voice
as the house glowers down at him
caped in silent stillness;
a muscle waiting to twitch!
 
S...

Bonding with Nature

...Bonding with Nature

Early Sunday morning; 
nature rattling at the front door!
I accept the invitation to bond,
stepping out with nothing more in tow
than an upturned collar
and a theatrical i...

Winter Withers

...Winter Withers

…… its way into the woods
and waits….and wonders….and watches
until…. No-one is looking.
Boorishly, an ally introduces itself,
an iced-sliced wind to quiver-shiver
the woods’ m...

The Lake

...The Lake.....

lies… still,
a glistening sheet of tin foil,
shimmering in a cold-eyed wind.

At night
the lake still... lies… still;
a coffin with lid screwed light-tight.

On occasion, the...

The Shed

...The Shed
...was Granddad's before he died.
And now its loneliness reached out to the boy
from the shaded, shuffling shadows 
that shushed the sheltered garden.
They pulled, they tugged at his gu...

I Tried to Unlearn

...I Tried to Unlearn

……. his name , his face, his memory
but each morning they kept resurfacing;
rubber ringed feelings that would not sink 
no matter how hard I pushed down.
So I journeyed to p...

The Quieter You Are

...ENOUGH!

I felt deaf from the ‘noise’ of information,
constantly butting, buzzing against my mantra of:
“The quieter you are… the more you… hear!”
At present, my lifestyle felt media manipulated...

My Father's Hand

...My Father’s Hand!

My father left me when I was a baby
and all that remained of him… was his hand! 
The hand that edged its way
into the last photo he took of me!
As I grew, I used to study tha...

She Wanted More

...She Wanted More!

He shut the car door with a hush;
she closed her side of the car with a statement.
He slipped into his seat belt in a measured sense;
she slapped-snapped her seat belt on.. in ...

The Lie

...The Lie

I am an insect waiting to be squashed!

I stare hard at the ground
as if fascinated, enthralled by it
while, above, eyes of cold-cobalt  
wait to gouge and burrow out 
any self-belie...

A Sensitive Man

...A Sensitive Man

He was the finely spun, hushed type
his character often folded up; 
inside pocket rather than on display.
He felt different but followed the rules:
school, college and then wor...

Further Along

...Further Along

Further along you might know some of the answers, 
further along perhaps you will understand the why.

We met on a corner of an afternoon 
where the sun had stopped to shine; 
y...

The Expert in Death

...The Expert in Death

She reluctantly closed the book,
locking the painting back inside her mind,
then a sudden frisson of emotion,
another surreal-reveal moment,
and her smile was flint; lips u...

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