The
old woman
The
old woman that lives at the end of the lane
As
she has forever
Eternally
stamped and as dishevelled
As
the sea washed seafront
Youth
subtly avoiding her
As
she, hangs her washing on the line.
Ignoring
the winds kiss.
The
ceramic walls
Of
the home she decorates in her evening wishes
Cheroot’s
plastered over the floor
Along
with the oils and colours
Of
paintings she creates
Her
time split between
Incessant
loquaciousness and monastic silence
In
this cul-de-sac
Of
forgotten dreams she labours
Against
times idling thumb twittering.
And
as the wolf whistles
To
the girls into the night
She
stares blankly through the gin and cigarillos
Within
the antique décor
She
lives by breathing the briny air
The
turquoise and white as her eyes
Her
life is slipping by like the quayside ropes
Of
the leaving ships
Her
grammar of life, now no longer understood
Her
anger, raw as the marrow, red as paprika
Glowing
life pressured of the lost leaves of her life
The
rickety old rocking chair goes on – just.
The
world unseen through smoke stained glass
- Jonathan Beale 2016
Jonathan Beale has 450 plus
poems published in such journals as: Decanto, Penwood Review, The
Screech Owl, Danse Macabre, Danse Macabre du Jour, Poetic Diversity, Voices of
Israel in English, Miracle-E-zine, Voices of Hellenism Literary Journal,
The Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears, Down in the Dirt, The English Chicago
Review, Mad Swirl, Poetry Cornwall, Leaves of Ink, Ariadne’s Thread, Bijou
Poetry Review, Calvary Cross, Deadsnakes Review, The Bitchin Kitsch, Poetry by
Birkbeck alumnus, The Dawntreader, I am not a Silent Poet, Pyrokinection,
Festival of Language, Festivalwriter, ‘Don’t Be Afraid: An Anthology to Seamus
Heaney’, Ygdrasil, The Four Seasons Anthology, The
Seventh Quarry, Van Gogh’s Ear Anthology, The Curly Mind, The Beatnik Cowboy,
Dali’s LoveChild, Storm Cycle Anthology (Best of Hurricane Press 2015) and The
Jawline Review.
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