Thank you subscribers! You are one of my very first 100 subscribers and to celebrate, I’m sharing a poem with you. Waiting For You was shortlisted in the Urban Tree Festival and appeared in the beautiful chap book called Canopy.
WAITING FOR YOU
Days, it’s been weeks of days.
Out for an hour, dare not stay longer,
watch the sky through bare branches.
Back home the door swells and contracts
dries and cracks, ageing still.
I read our table, its rings and knots
pages of life, nature’s full stops
where new growth joined the trunk.
Days, it’s been weeks of days,
months of my shape changing.
Alone. We are brave.
Leaves unfurl, seed dust birls in the air.
You’re a girl, they say.
I dream of tiny feet,
deep ripples vibrating the room,
child-sized shoes on the wooden floor.
Days, it’s been weeks of days,
months, much waiting for you.
A lush canopy grows in the woods,
filtering a warming sky
where shapes will dance in your eyes under rose confetti.
And I daydream about me,
who I’ll be, after.
I’ll be the one with the pram in the trees.
The Urban Tree Festival celebrates urban trees. They run regular events and you can find out more here:
https://urbantreefestival.org
Thank you for being here in the Little Writing Corner and for helping me celebrate my first 100 subscribers! I appreciate you more than you know.
Love, Jackie x
I woke up on 28th February to discover 100 people had subscribed to the Little Writing Corner and immediately came downstairs to share this celebratory poem with you. I am lucky enough to have our canopy of trees to look out on from my little writing corner in Scotland and the blue tits are building their nest in our nesting box! Thanks once again!! x
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