Lesley Young – Selected Poems #15
Identity Crisis She was looking for herself In all the usual places Seeking a connection But finding just blank spaces She’d tried the church and...
Read moreIdentity Crisis She was looking for herself In all the usual places Seeking a connection But finding just blank spaces She’d tried the church and...
Read moreJekyll and Hyde Us Jekyll and Hyde you, Hold me tight in the morning, Say that I’m lovely, stroke our worries away. Then somehow, and always...
Read moreThe Long Sleep Years I slept, long and fettered My slow-motion life This weariness, a leaden cloak My line of sight Blurred by wine and...
Read moreBurren Light It began this way. A notion a slight suggestion a search for questions and a yearning just beyond my reach. A curiosity wavering...
Read moreAlford Dawn White-iced wonderland Startled by a valiant sun I wake to the morn Longing for you still November’s sparks, like tinder, Rekindling...
Read morePostcard From Ireland I think of you in lands like these Wonderful, inspiring lands With sweeping bays and rugged knocks, Cork’s Sleepy bailes and...
Read moreMisguided Fantasy I lost my head (When all about me were keeping theirs – ha!) Over you In a jumble of possibilities If not eventualities...
Read moreMessage in a Bottle I will take my feelings and dress them up In fancy words On the finest vellum And seal them in a vial made of tempered glass I...
Read moreExistential Crisis They said it would be useful, help me to ‘move on’, after all this time. And I did want to tell my story, I wanted to...
Read morePru Her kids all grown, she came to this place To learn. She sat at the back, afraid to speak In case she got things wrong. Then bit by bit...
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