Coddiwomple – Poem by Ali Grimshaw

February 10, 2020 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 38 Comments

Even without
a roadmap
I can follow
the song
of my
heart’s direction.
Sing along
while keen
to its increase.
Turning
in time
so as not to
lose the melody.
Ears intent on
wholeness of being
following
fulfilling
fondly
easing my ache
of confusion.

© Ali Grimshaw 2020

Coddiwomple (v.) Origin: English Slang Word.Definition: To travel in a purposeful manner towards a vague destination.

dVerse Poets Pub – Quadrille “Fill”

Photo taken on my trip to Amsterdam, October 2019.

Right by your side

August 25, 2018August 24, 2018 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 13 Comments

you beside, never

behind, together we face

forward fearlessly.

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Senryu

Seafaring

December 17, 2017December 17, 2017 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 8 Comments

She never failed

to float him beyond

the current of his day

to slip away with her

curved sides just right

perfect in their holding space

to part waves

when he needed release

she took him far from shore

her motor always finely tuned

of that he made sure

never to neglect.

Serene

Succumb To The Season

October 14, 2017October 14, 2017 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 28 Comments

Will you?

Fall, drift, yield

hand in hand,

warm kiss of palms,

veins of life intertwined,

before we,

plunge through crispness

to the other side

of golden.

Succumb

Opening Up

April 17, 2017April 1, 2018 ~ Ali Grimshaw ~ 13 Comments

Under the tree, sitting

knee to knee while

randomly, snow petals

drift down between us.

‘How can we begin again?

After all, I don’t trust.

I have forgotten how, or…

maybe I never knew.’

While branches above blossom yearly

growth regardless of weather.

‘I guess the question is,

how badly do I

want to blossom?’

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” — Carl Sandburg, from The Atlantic, March 1923.