ailsacawley

Her ethereal being floats shape changing 

Undulates across, around beyond the horizon 

No corporeal restraint on her 

Laughter tinkling on the wind maybe? 

Or have you conjured your own fears 

To human form when something unknown bids you forth 

And you tell yourself it’s nothing 

She smiles as she moves to provoke attention 

And gets it without effort 

A shift here a flick there 

You can breathe freely as light breaks through 

And she rolls her shadowy back away from the sun 

From other darkness shows 

She will return remaining hidden until she is ready 

To show you her command once more  

You will enter her as she chooses the hook 

With which she’ll snare you 

Willingly you go to a possible end 

Maybe pass through the mist as she swallows your being 

To leave if she chooses your moment gone 

And smiling whichever her decision 

Ailsa 

©AilsaCawleyPoetry2017

It’s been a very different year, this year. So many things have changed in the world at large and in my world. 

As with everything we have to carry on ahead, whatever is thrown our way and sometimes it’s more difficult than we expected. I try to remain grateful and glad for the good things, the good friends and those who are part of my life. 

Some wonderful friendships have been cemented and gained this year. 

The world seems a mad place at the moment, but we can only fight by using honesty and compassion, caring for all and not giving the people who try to divide the world the chance to tear down the world by notions of blaming others for their blinkers instead of just removing them and seeing people as simply, well people!  Colour, sex etc don’t come into it. 

Whatever you believe or don’t , at the dawn of 2017 , I wish you a Happy New Year and a blessed one. 

Ailsa 

©AilsaCawleyPoetry2017


Your memories are safe here enshrined at the door

Of which we nod with gratitude and thanks evermore

We may not know a loved one lost in the fight you fought

But hearts thank you for bravery given without a second thought

You gave your lives for future freedom you may never see

But that of the children at home you’d never bounce upon your knee

Our poppy it is worn with your sacrifice in mind

Of the lives you left at home and wives you left behind

You did it all with love and justice beating in your hearts

A better world you could see if we could only start

So now in the poppy fields where wildest blooms do grow

Should we not show that in the driest earth love can surely grow?

We must always remember your willingness to die

But the underlying reason for future generations to have less reason to cry.

Please respect these wishes for a free world and try again

Before we inflict upon our children more horror death or pain.
Ailsa

©AilsaCawley Poetry 2015