New Poetry by Fotoula Reynolds

September-gold

Sometimes life feels like

The tiny artful twists of a bonsai

Choreographing me to the places

I am meant to be

With full authority

Rising, climbing the air

Like the sunflower that I am

Mysterious and becoming

Dancing into destiny

Feeling safe and hidden

Behind a weeping willow’s

Curtain-like branches, I’m moved

To beyond all that I know

Treading lightly on seeds

That are September-gold

I navigate a spider web thread

And see the pattern within

Emotion-weave into my soul

On a path of unendingness

My heart travels a landscape

Through butterfly-eyes

I breathe a clean language

On the rotating weather wheel

I am further than middle age

I no longer follow a map and

I trust the season of change

- © Fotoula Reynolds 2022

Fotoula Reynolds is a writer of poetry, born in Australia of Greek heritage. She convenes a poetry group in her local community and regularly attends and participates in spoken word events in and around the city of Melbourne. She is the author of three poetry collections with her fourth due for release late October 2022 titled: Kairos. Fotoula is published widely in journals, reviews, anthologies and magazines and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Also by Fotoula Reynolds: The sanctuary of my garden (2018), Silhouettes (2019), Along the Macadam Road (2020)