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 Jan 2018 katie
ryn
When all else
has been
flogged by time,
beaten by uncertainty
and consumed
by the earth...

All that’s left...

Is the salt
disowned by
indulgent cascades.
From the headland
I see the swells bursting toward you

The sea horse mane
Flowing in the winter wind

Bursting high above you
Rolling in

The rage turns
As they brake and lap over
Your naked feet

Caressing you they
Slip back out to sea
As the sun light dimes on another year
The moon will rise high bringing new hope and cheer

To mark the end of another ordinary day
Good hope and health to all of you I pray

Let us shout from the highest mountains
In poems and song
Put all the things right that has gone so wrong

When we meet again this time next year
2018 will bring great cheer, great cheer

Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
Happy New Year
 Jan 2018 katie
ryn
Pardon Me
 Jan 2018 katie
ryn
Captured and shackled
to a wick of flesh and bone.

Thoughts as kindle,
takes spark -
setting alight what fuel
that runs within.

Anticipated blaze -
you know but never
acknowledge.

Time is here and now...

So pardon me
while I burst
into flames...


.
Last verse and title is from Incubus’ “Pardon Me”.
 Jan 2018 katie
ryn
River Water
 Jan 2018 katie
ryn
I feel like river water.
And I don’t belong to stagnancy,
yet I’m caught in a lake.

•••

I’m destined
to move silt and sediment.
And overturn
submerged pebbles
so they won’t see
the green of moss.

I’m meant to surge
and eat into banks
so I could be split -
to make more of me...

My reach would extend
far and wide -
like scraggly fingers
grabbing at the
face of the earth.

My energy channelling
through careless forks
and into slimmer branches.


•••

My soul is river water....
And my heart renounces
the throne to idleness.

Yet I am,
but a lake.
 Jan 2018 katie
mel
Soul-strain
 Jan 2018 katie
mel
the
Love,
(the) pain,
+ the (growth)
i have gained (from)
heart(aches) obtained
will forever rema(in)
as (my) sacred
(soul) strain
the growth from aches in my soul
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