New Blog!
December 30, 2020
My new blog is here: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/fionaowen-blog
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Blackthorn
April 13, 2020
Blackthorn is muscular all year flexing macho bones angles points but in May blackthorn turns transvestite all froth of frocks all bridal bright all frilly and all lady-like all May Ball Queen in petal white From Fiona Owen, O My Swan (pamphlet, out of print).
Poem for us all at the time of Covid-19
April 13, 2020
Prayer Poem Dear precious flesh, frail and needy, this is a prayer for you. You, the lit candle who drips your wax and burns your length of wick, your light both tenuous and tenacious – You, prey to the umpteen plagues, to draughts and gales from the four quarters – Know yourself, at this moment, … More Poem for us all at the time of Covid-19
December 11 Haiku 2019
December 11, 2019
out in the chill day ivy is green gloss vigour – hold to the heartwood
December 10 Haiku 2019
December 10, 2019
poetry of rain – words like leaves have swirled all day scattered by the gale
December 9 Haiku 2019
December 10, 2019
Noting how winter is like gravity, pulling – the last leaf yields
December 8 Haiku 2019
December 10, 2019
Night’s wind whistling. Here’s Bethlehem olive wood – protect the heart-space
December 7 Haiku 2019
December 7, 2019
It’s getting windy. We draw the curtains early – cultivate the flame.
December 6 Haiku 2019
December 6, 2019
pond’s spent bulrushes – wild wintering nourishes the fabled lotus
December 5 Haiku 2019
December 6, 2019
naked mulberry thicket of criss-crossing words – one week to go
