Poetry Challenge…Non-love…

What is there left?
In me
Of you
Forever there.
The part that’s you
Still there with me.
Was it
Your eyes
Of blue.
Strange
How I tired of them.
Your smile
Unfunny.
Your dreams
Never.
Your voice
Your hopes
Still
So loud
I cannot remember
A single word.
But
Your hands.
Your hands.
The way they were.
Forever Gentle.
Stay forever
I remember….
‘People should fall in love with their eyes closed’
~ Gill McGrath© April 12 [Quote made by Andy Warhol]

~A Non Love Poem Challenge~

Thank you Holly for the challenge to write a ‘Non Love Poem’ Not sure if this fills the bill.
Please visit Holly’s blog by following the link…
the challenge:“Non-Love in More than Ten Sentences Challenge” – La Audacia de Aquiles
https://aheartafire.wordpress.com/2015/04/09/non-love-in-more-than-ten-sentences-challenge-la-audacia-de-aquiles/

Posted on April 12, 2015April 12, 2015 by Gill McGrath 4

tonight. found-a high place to sit

for King Jack
and his Queen

(I think this is them at about 7.30pm tonight)

This is the nest on the house where Jack and his wife lives.
Gill McGrath April 11

Posted on April 11, 2015April 11, 2015 by Gill McGrath 7

Hold back the River- James Bay

James Bay

Oxford won the University Thames Boat Race today. Oxford women took part for the first time this year and won also! Good title – nice tune

“Hold Back The River”

Tried to keep you close to me,
But life got in between
Tried to square not being there
But think that I should have been

Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river, so I
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
Hold back the river, hold back

Once upon a different life
We rode our bikes into the sky
But now we call against the tide
Those distant days are flashing by

Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river, so I
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
Hold back the river, hold back

Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river, so I
Can stop for a minute and see where you hide
Hold back the river, hold back

Hold oho, oho, oho, oho
Oho, oho, oho, oho

Lonely water, lonely water, won’t you let us wander
Let us hold each other
Lonely water, lonely water, won’t you let us wander
Let us hold each other

Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river, so I
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
Hold back the river, hold back

Hold back the river, let me look in your eyes
Hold back the river, so I
Can stop for a minute and be by your side
Hold back the river, hold

Lonely water, lonely water, won’t you let us wander
Let us hold each other
Lonely water, lonely water, won’t you let us wander
Let us hold each other

Posted on April 11, 2015April 11, 2015 by Gill McGrath 4

Suddenly…. blue and cotton cloud

But first….
Over the fields beyond the trees
and back to where pink mists the lines

-Changes around the sky in 30 minutes and afterglow, as it was, on landscape opposite the sun! Then a beautiful sunny day…….

11.30am

Gill McGrath© April 11. Sunrise 6.30am + this morning

Posted on April 11, 2015April 11, 2015 by Gill McGrath 4

found in the blue with violets

winds moved the haze
horizon clear…..
5.00pm

7.53pm

…..first ladybird today!
Gill McGrath© April 10

Posted on April 10, 2015April 10, 2015 by Gill McGrath 6

mother blackbird. her morning. view

from a rather scruffy garden hedge
that needs a cut
that will have to wait
a bird can see
gold…

6.49am

7.10 am… beyond the wires a high white mist.. not cloud…the sun

8.06am
Back at the hedge….look close… she’s sitting there!

Gill McGrath©

Posted on April 10, 2015April 10, 2015 by Gill McGrath 13

The Faberge Watch

Daddy Blackbird on guard duty………

Mother Blackbird sitting in her nest. She is there watching….look for the orange beak and a little black eye!
Gill McGrath © April 9. around 7.40pm~~~

Posted on April 9, 2015April 9, 2015 by Gill McGrath 7

catching the moment……

at seven the sun a peach caught in a pretty haze
dancing in and out the wires!
vanilla mists on the field in full cling caught casting dew
on every blade of grass making violets drip
with diamonds on the scented path
then blue skies and magnolia …at last
(and Jack in ermine strutting his stuff close by) – Gill McGrath©

7.11am~~~

7.24am [press picture for the dew]

7.28am

10.30am~~

Posted on April 9, 2015April 9, 2015 by Gill McGrath 13

two birds and one golden egg!

Posted on April 8, 2015April 8, 2015 by Gill McGrath 12

breathing pink and blue

breathing
in the pink and blue
a pigeon sits has found the moon!
sun climbs the line
is out of view
where
the pigeon walks
the lady smiles
stretching through the mist….. Gill McGrath© [April 8]
5.45am