Category Archives: Poetry

Sarah Kay’s ‘Hands’

The Sun

Even after all this time The sun never says to the earth, “You owe Me.” Look what happens with A love like that, It lights the Whole Sky.

If…

If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs And blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too. If you can dream and not make dreams your master. If you can think and not make thoughts your aim.

A Stone In The River – Life

She stands on a stone in the middle of the river sticking out her tongue she drinks in the world each rounded drop a planet in its own right falling from above shooting up from beneath each and one of them quite new to this world as is she a child of five, but ready

Room Inside

Room Inside There’s a room in my house where nobody goes except me: a still room, a light room, a where-I-go-to-write room, an any-day, any-time, a middle-of-the-night room, a feeling-low-and-slow or a high-as-a-kite room. Feel free! There’s a room in my house where nobody goes. There are cupboards and corners that nobody knows inside me.

Makeup.

I just hate make-up; “You could be beautiful if…” Fuck “if”. You’re gorgeous.

Words — Anne Sexton

Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous we do our best, sometimes they swarm like insects and leave not a sting but a kiss. They can be as good as fingers. They can be as trusty as the rock you stick your bottom on. But they can be both daisies and

Harriet

However do you live your life, knowing, As you do, that your smile Razes buildings, forests, kingdoms? Really you should lock yourself In your room. But then the Earth may as well combust, for There would be no more reason for it to spin.

Fuck The Drugs

Laying here, you said: “Fuck the drugs, let’s lucid dream.” Please don’t wake me up.

We Danced – unknown

we danced the way lovers dance with the puddles of dribbled clothes painting rainbows on the floor we smiled the way lovers smile with the world of possibilities shining in each other’s eyes we laughed the way lovers laugh with the glee of knowing the secrets that we hold inside we parted the way lovers