by Joe Winter | May 8, 2019 | Poems for Pat, Poems
Like the SeaLike the sea, like dust large-grained, a tearing rustle –the touch of the wind through leavesincreasing, forced in waves over the brainaround the nearness to the heartthe naturally skilful needles, pine-needles moveover the ground where I lovethe slick...
by Joe Winter | May 8, 2019 | Poems for Pat, Poems
Flowers by the Fire Eight teazels, burrs, standing out dark in a spray of slender wayward-spreading honesty. Those white light pennies represent our wealth, cast motionless among dark guardians. Dear, when we marry, who can see our thoughts? The years ahead have poles...
by Joe Winter | May 8, 2019 | Poems for Pat, Poems
Outside the Solent Hotel, PortsmouthNow not alone, but still where I want to be,walking the pebbles, watching the spray wave-blown,leaning into the salt wind of the green sea,then finding your warmth. Alone and not...
by Joe Winter | May 8, 2019 | Poems for Pat, Poems
As the Snow Fell As the snow fell on our honeymoon, after a walk in the cold sun and a three-months’ drive to the wedding, in the clear January afternoon our lives’ sky-emptying hazard was begun. We turned from ourselves and watched the white flakes spreading, And my...
by Joe Winter | May 8, 2019 | Poems for Pat, Poems
I Tell YouHow can I explainthe colour of the leaves?And the waterfall voicesof fire-darting birdshow can I suggest?How can I even know?What the eye perceives(shaped and tested, shaped and guessedby the meddling brain)is not known as trueby the dull cast of words,nor...
by Joe Winter | May 8, 2019 | Poems for Pat, Poems
For Your BirthdayShadow of beech-leaves, shapes and stemsof daffodils, design of summer dresses,immaculate marking of diagrams,our living-room, that at its leisure amassessoft loveliness of spaces,sure lines, the red lampshade’s rims,and jars and cotton-reels whose...
