Mum xxx

Last day...

Laughter

Found easily.

Thankfulness

For a lovely cuppa.

Memories

Sharing tales.

Pain

Constant shadow.

Strength

Palpable.

Companionship

Being together.

Love

Freely given.

No guilt

A final plea.

Days since...

A piece

Missing.

Sadness

Lingering.

Tears

Waves falling.

Kinship

Connecting.

Identity

Acceptance.

Remembering

Overwhelming.

Mantra

No regrets.

Gifted with

A full life lived.

Days to come...

Lessons learnt

Laugh

Share

Love

Accept.

Live life

With no regrets!

Linger

With a passing touch
Soft and fragile
Your scent remains

You linger
Not upon the branch -
Persisting in my memory

Comforting when change comes
For things return - Altered
Yet always connected

Poppy...

If I could write your story
From then to now
What stories I could tell
A tall tale, legend, myth?

From one story, one view
A life derived from strength
That carries those
Who are part of you

Of character that supports
Teaches and believes
One life that is boundless
A greater story than I could conceive.

Red Tears

Red Tears (words)

I hear their memories,
Calling!
Wafting across fields.
Floating.
Singing their final lullaby -
Weeping:
A harmony of voices,
Haunting...

Whispers drift over fields,
Calling!
Threads of their memories.
Floating.
Visions always lingering -
Weeping:
Staining the fallen leaves,
Haunting...


*Reflecting on why this poem came into being - post ANZAC Day on Behind Dreaming...

"Red Tears" was first published in Teesside Artists' Journal, November 2009. Thank you to Carol Fenwick, the editor of Teesside Artists' Journal, for all her support including understanding my decision to republishing this poem on my blog.


Red Tears by Allison Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.5 Australia License.
Based on a work at allisonbrown.blogspot.com and Teesside Artists' Journal.

A Leaf

Words within A Leaf...

Unfurling
Expanding
Spreading
Catching
Absorbing

Displaying
Teeming
Gathering
Covering
Breathing

Swaying
Changing
Grasping
Pausing
Relinquishing

Parched
Fragile
Brittle
Twisting
Floating
Falling

Discarded
Withered
Dying
Mingling
Feeding

A Leaf by Allison Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License. Based on a work at allisonbrown.blogspot.com.

Print - pictured

Contains the poem Print that was also posted on my blog. I am still trying to decide what image should be shown with this poem. Yet I cannot ignore what came to me when I was thinking about it :-)

Print - pictured by Allison Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License. Based on a work at allisonbrown.blogspot.com. Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://allisonbrown.blogspot.com/2008/09/print.html.

Ending

Thickening air
Heat rising
Mist hovering

Sight unseen
Glowing lights
Journey returning
Homeward bound

Feet aching
Smile wide
Ending time

Ending by Allison Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License. Based on a work at allisonbrown.blogspot.com.

Perfect Love

I see not perfection
Nor a happy ending love
With promises of dreams come true
A gift of the moon and stars

What I see upon your faces
Is the joy of a journey shared
The understanding of each other
As your lives come to pass

In the life that you've shared
Through the calm and the storm
Together time has shaped you
Into the people who you are

And through your lives together
I see a perfect love

Perfect Love by Allison Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License. Based on a work at allisonbrown.blogspot.com.

Breathe

Each breath we inhale
Gifts us with moments of peace
Linking us to life

Breathe by Allison Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License. Based on a work at allisonbrown.blogspot.com.

Print

With so few words:
So stark and pure -
I become someone new.

Print by Allison Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License. Based on a work at allisonbrown.blogspot.com.

Enduring

As the darkness swells all the stars awaken
My fingers stretch towards the day's fading light.
My naked arms, lingering forsaken,
Bare to the growing chill of the night

I dwell amid those I have always known
In an ages-long cycle that comes and goes.
Feeling time pass, I stand still as a stone:
While around my feet the tide of life flows.

Again I have weathered coldness and strife.
Now I stand at the far edge of the dark,
I feel myself spiralling closer to life
As the light composes a longer arc.

Once more my skin sheltered from prying eyes
And my guise swaying amongst paradise.

Enduring by Allison Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-Share Alike 2.5 Australia License.
Based on a work at allisonbrown.blogspot.com.

Speak again

Let me remember you,
Let me see you in my mind,
Let me accept
That you are gone.
I know that we shall not speak again,
Yet I know there was still
So much left unsaid.

Even if I was given
Another chance to speak
I would not know
What to say
What to do.

How can I ever explain
That even when
I think about you now
There are still no words
That can fully explain
The impact you had
Upon my life.

Even though there are things left
To speak upon
There is now nothing left
That I can say,
That I can do.

How do I explain
That even though I knew
That you would soon be gone,
I did not seek
To find the words
That I could speak
Before you were gone.

Yet now that you are no longer here
I find it hard to say the words:
That would mean I have accepted
What has come to pass;
That I have embraced the reality
That you are gone
And that we shall never
Speak again.

Speak again by Allison Brown is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 Australia License. Based on a work at allisonbrown.blogspot.com.