My (Not Doing) List – Poem by Ali Grimshaw

March 27, 2025March 27, 2025 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 36 Comments


feed fear with unreal reels

worry about my forgetfulness

get rid of the unwanted flab under my arms

build my knowledge of astrophysics

whiten my teeth or make my oven sparkle

catalog boxes of dust collectors

perfect the way I manage my time

hesitate to sing regardless of location

find a way to get him to talk to me

obsess on how to be better balanced

wait for better weather to begin

© Ali Grimshaw 2025

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The Gift of Goodbye – Poem by Ali Grimshaw

June 3, 2023 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 33 Comments


I'll miss you, he said.

3 words that land large within me.
I let them soak inward
pausing, to embrace this moment.

I'll miss you, he said.

Within these words I hear.
      I noticed you while you were here.
      I have felt your presence.
      You mattered,
      a space will be left here after you have gone.

I'll miss you, he said.

How wonderful to be able to hear these words, 
words I didn't know how to hear
before

tears on my smiling face.

© Ali Grimshaw 2023

Photo taken on my journey to France, 2019.

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Hello 2023 – Poem by Ali Grimshaw

January 1, 2023January 11, 2024 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 15 Comments


And isn't it always the question
how to begin again

to feel the crackly spark of
love's first touch

to adventure forth
eyes wide in wonder of

the not knowing when or how
but with surety that the next
wonderful will be there

remember springing out of bed 
because lightness 
was all you knew

it is the endings you keep 
tripping over

desire for only beginnings
no goodbyes

© Ali Grimshaw 2023

I’ve been granted a spell of wandering – Poem by Ali Grimshaw

June 13, 2022June 14, 2022 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 43 Comments

no one will ever know what you gave

the number of times
you've grown a new heart
after donating the last one

sit a spell with the map
of your heartlife

claim your mountains
distance
growth vistas

tape more wilderness down
you're still alive

©Ali Grimshaw 2022

Quadrille #154 "Casting a spell
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Briefly – Poem by Ali Grimshaw

November 26, 2021November 26, 2021 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 30 Comments

Fallen Leaf Art by **Nikola Faller** in Osijek, Croatia – More inspiring photos HERE

Briefly

Stages and ages of crimson edges
crisp rounds, centers of golden.

Veins will remain long after the delicate 
sections have disassembled themselves
to join the soil for another cycle. 

These elders don't fight seasonal changes.
Through the quiet and loud
or bend and wave of storm
they receive while sheltering seedings below

forever willing to show their nakeness 
in the darkest of times.
With empty arms
while full of life within.

Their offerings a mosaic
of temorary color.

© Ali Grimshaw 2021

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Airborne – Poem by Ali Grimshaw

May 14, 2021May 20, 2021 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 24 Comments

releasing herself
to the sky
to feel the lift 
let her weight trust 
in the invisible 
courage of currents 

surf soaring free 
up, over and through
this unexpected windscape
surrendering her need 
to know
to resolve
to figure it out 

arms wide, in full float
with the faith of a bird
that doesn't remember
a day without flight
or a time of being grounded

©Ali Grimshaw 2021

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Shift – Poem by Ali Grimshaw

October 13, 2020 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 14 Comments

absent stood out
on the page of my day,
like sharp yellow highlighter,
a biting bright contrast,
to your slight soft smile.
Remembering our laughter
mixed with warm sunlight smell
of blackberries, overripe
with the end of this season,
some clinging to the vine.

© Alicia Grimshaw 2019

As we shift to the next, there is a tension of holding on 
and letting go. I feel this as I experience goodbyes 
and new places. Sending love to anyone who is saying 
farewell and transitioning with this season.  Let's 
welcome in the new colors that arrive with this change.

Shifting – Poem by Ali Grimshaw

September 16, 2019September 16, 2019 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 27 Comments

absent stood out

on the page of my day,

like sharp yellow highlighter,

biting bright contrast,

to your slight soft smile.

Remembering our laughter

mixed with the warm sunlight smell

of blackberries, overripe

with the end of this season,

some clinging to the vine.

As we shift to the next, there is a tension of holding on and letting go. I feel this as I experience goodbyes and new places. Sending love to anyone who is saying farewell and transitioning with this season. Let’s welcome in the new colors that arrive with this change.