Poetry Reading

Poetry Reading

Immersed in Plath and Duffy
Swimming in frightful depths
Learning to breathe and go with the flow
To race with the currents
Or paddle becalmed
Swallowing fear, in over my head
Down where it’s dark and monsters may lurk
No one to guide me, fighting the fear
The thrashing and splashing
The panic, the pain
Trying to breathe and to fathom the flow
Trusting the poem the rhythm the verse
To rock me to pull me to whirl me in pools
Where willows hang weeping
Silver flash leaping
In depths and in shallows
In babbling and roaring
The sounds and the words and the rhythm all pounding
Bearing the feelings the thoughts and the message
Trusting the poem, the poet, her voice
Exhausted, uplifted, will not be defeated
I’m learning to breathe and to go with the flow

Hounoux 15th July 2009