Richard Pierce

Richard Pierce – author, poet, painter

Poetry

83/2023

immoderately responsible
she let him stay too long
where he didn’t belong
with consequences three
trimesters later unexpected
but not impossible
just in time for a christmas
not yet invented
for the world of their posterity

years later another feast
laid on for those yet to come
candles and chocolates
eggs and expectation
resurrection and disbelief
a succession of miracles
the world now abuses
and organises

she never intended
patriarchy

R 24/03/2023 20:29

Another long week. Thank God for friends who seem to circle in the same orbits and rhythms and creativity – you know who you are. There are always words and invisible bonds. And music…

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2 Comments

  1. ren

    25th March 2023 at 08:22

    circling is somehow loaded with optimism… sometimes 😉

    1. Richard Pierce

      25th March 2023 at 08:35

      especially if the circles (though they are strictly speaking ellipses) move through different places.

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