So we can fly, to the sea,
in the summer
in the dark
And we can dance, to my home,
I can show, you the park
Where I sat, under the moon
and the dew, touched my skin
And I cried, all my lonely
But you warm me. You're my kin.
Nov 21, 2016
Nov 21, 2016 at 5:52 PM UTC
The night is on us
Not quietly tonight
The wind is singing to me.
I felt some peace today
A different kind of numb
I'll sit with it and rest in this calm.
I didn't feel Father's day
The way I often do
It was just there.
I don't care
That you don't love me
Dad.
Sep 4, 2016
Sep 4, 2016 at 8:33 AM UTC
You were absent today
I didn't notice til 6pm
ish
You've been fading out
Visiting less often
I won't miss you
***** Itch
You've been persistent
Jun 1, 2016
Jun 1, 2016 at 6:24 AM UTC
Mummy,
Happy birth-mothersday
Throw ya toast out the window
Feed it to the dog
Kiss me with your laughing eyes
Kiss me kindly with your lips
Touch my cheek with your smooth brown hands
Not one more time
But forever more times please Mum
Let's get ***** growing potatoes
Let's get paint on the carpet
Let's write love notes on the walls
Like all normal people do
Tell me to make you a cuppa tea.
(I'm turning into you mum.)
Sing my songs to me mummy
Tell me about Rindacella again
please tell me how she slopped her dripper on the stairs
Can you hear the morepork Mummy? Listen with me
Did you see that shootin' star?
Are you smelling these trees?
Wrap me up in itchy woollen cardies
Put my odd socks on
Puddle jumpin' in my gummies
In a land called Honalee
I'll climb into bed with you tonight
Lace bedspread catching my toes
Curl up in the nest of the crook of your knees
It's cold, sleep back-to-back
Dance in front of my friends if you like
They all think you're cool
Sorry I didn't tell you.
Teenagers ****
Tell me I'm amazing
Adventurous and strong
Your courageous daughter
Smart and beautiful
Remind me I can sail ships through storms
That God is always close
Pray over me and praise with me
Read the bible again to me
Come play piano with Isobel
Or computer games if you like
I think I've killed your Farmville farm
Sorry .
Mummy
Chat with me on Facebook
Ocean's teacher likes Donald Trump
Be outraged with me please
Come with me to the school
I'll hide behind your storm
People aren't afraid of my
Gentle, steady rain
I think I hear my babies stirring
They're amazing Mum
You should see the stuff they do and say
You should see how fierce they are
You should. You should. You should.
Be. Here.
They're creeping round the house now
Making my heart laugh
I better open up my bedroom window
Ready for the toast.
May 8, 2016
May 8, 2016 at 10:44 PM UTC
The first time I told you I love you
I didn't say it with my mouth
I took your hand and wrote it on your palm
Over the counter while you were at work
You looked at your hand, amused
Then I laughed and ran away
Mar 31, 2016
Mar 31, 2016 at 8:52 PM UTC
This is to write to you
The things I cannot say
The things I tell you all day
in my head.
I imagine I can tell you
that every morning I wake
I think about being dead.
And every night it's become my habit
to comfort myself with visions of that
until sleep arrives
But that's not to mean I will die
I'm just so numb.
I cannot tell you because people say
we say this for attention
Or to bestow you with responsibility
But although I want nothing more than for you
to come and hold me and offer me the comfort
I find in your arms
to replace the comfort of these relentless thoughts.
It is not your responsibility.
But let's not talk more of this
It's so boring.
Let's talk of how your hair smells
glorious
And your skin's so sweet and warm
and your mouth covers mine in friendly kisses.
How when I speak of pain you
embrace my hand with yours.
And even your hands are beautiful.
Of the look on your face when I showed you I had
drawn your feet.
How your eyes speak things to me.
Do mine speak to you?
What have my eyes already told you?
Maybe they've told you of this pain and my
tongue will never have to repeat it
and this poem can stay secret
Mar 31, 2016
Mar 31, 2016 at 4:56 AM UTC
There's someone occupying space in my
mind and heart
again
She's new.
I can't wait to find out more about her
She's like refreshing, but warm
rain
And
I'm wondering if I'll love her
She makes me smile so hard when
smiling
seems impossible
She's lovelier than lovely
She doesn't even know me but she
hugs me so much because I said I
needed it
And I crave her now
Like I crave sunshine
She is sunshine
Nov 7, 2015
Nov 7, 2015 at 4:09 AM UTC
I hate you cancer
Because you ravaged my mother's beautiful body
and then you stole her
We pleaded with you and you did not relent
Mummy cried out in pain and you did not relent
Mummy wept as you ripped pieces from her body
Then she stoically stared you in the face, as if
you could not destroy her
but you still did.
Mar 19, 2014
Mar 19, 2014 at 8:35 PM UTC
Mum
Me and your moko,
We lay on the grass
Staring into the stars
And someone came by and said we
might find you there
But we didn't.
And how could we really
Stars are burning gas
hung by the powerful creator you are with
But still I stared
hoping for a shooting one
I haven't seen any since we were together on my deck
and Mum-
I've laid and held your cardies with their cigarette smell
And I've curled up with your ashes and wept
But you're not there
I don't want to hear the empty words
people say (I know they're only trying to help)
I know you are not here
Yes
I see you in my mirror
and in the paintings you left
In my birthday cards
In the crutches by the door
My daughter's face.
The memory of your warm hand stroking my face (if I concentrate hard I can nearly feel it) with love no-one else can give me
Lying in the grass
With dew settling on our heads
We knew you weren't there.
And I'm glad for you Mum
Secure with the Father
Finally healed.
I think of your face shining as the Holy Spirit filled you
And your arms stretched towards heaven
and your voice
Singing 'On Eagle's Wings'
Filled with joy
And I know that's where you are
You're not meant to be here.
Mar 19, 2014
Mar 19, 2014 at 7:39 PM UTC
Yes, you have faults
But they are eclipsed
because you let me sniff your head
Mar 19, 2013
Mar 19, 2013 at 5:40 AM UTC
