Empty Poems

These poems are about loss, lost lovers, death, a lost relationship

Void

...the void turns on a pivot of loss..

Birthday Poem

We inhale the burnt, ageing air

Broken Bearded Boy

Long drawn out coffee granule days. Deluded. I sit staring at his current life.

For Arwen

She reached for the solid bank of sand, but dissolved into grains of memories for you to try and hold.

Ma

I close my face into her warm chest under that navy woollen-worn jumper, infused with decades of pruning