Saturday, April 19, 2025

Saturday: The waiting time

Saturday

 the waiting time 

No-one celebrates this day.
This is the waiting time,
the coin has been tossed
and beyond human intervention.
The faces of anxiety and jubilation
compete
as the spin continues
and the world turns
its daily course.


No-one celebrates this day.
This is the between day,
the Sabbath day of no existence
when nothing can be done
yet all is being done.
No-one celebrates this day.
Preparation day:
in a cloak of invisibility,
some form of eternity
is at work.


No-one celebrates this day.
Mourning day:
when tears abound
and the future,
suddenly unmapped,
lies broken in a dark tomb
with a sentry of stone.


No-one celebrates this day.

Friday, February 14, 2025

Valentine 2025

 


Valentine 2025

More moments have passed,

a travail of travel:

seconds, minutes

and hours,

in relentless haste

around the quadrangle of years.


Between chimes,

breaths and breathless

moments

initiate intimations

the touch and touchless

hovering of bees

seeking nectar.


The air trembles,

a kiss,

a liaison,

a sensuous affair,

night-sky silk

on unclothed skin.

 

Monday, January 27, 2025

A peace candle on Holocaust Rembrance day


Shadows in the darkness,

fading memories

waning

with the loss

of daylight

and the dying

of the undead.


Quietude in the noise

and the sobbing

cello

sounds

its lamentation.


A single candle

in the street

says nothing.

A candle

in every street

calls the world

to hope.

Keith Wallis 27th Jan 2025




Thursday, November 07, 2024

Ghosts, in memorial

 

Ghosts, in memorial 

The annual wraith of war
stalks sensitive earth,
leaving blood-stained trails
haunting tendered lives
with its heavy boots.

Ghosts, in memorial,
gather around
gatherings around
memorial stones
and half masted flags.

Poppies, in abundant echo,
badge lawyers and teachers,
housewives and doctors,
nurses and drivers
who have never ventured
before gunfire,
nor skirted craters
in a rush to oblivion.

The holy water of tears
elaborates grim remembrances
of histories shared
or
held at arms length by generations
that poorly understand
the painful chaos of conflict.
 
                                                                  Keith Wallis