Those specks of dust
Chalked – the contoursof corpses, soldiers lefton the silent streetsnow settling slowly underdust a whiter shade of paledust that smothers mothersdust that covers daughters soileddust that covers sootdust that hides […]
Category Archives: poetry
Forging a future
“Hope” is the thing with feathers –That perches in the soul – Emily Dickinson Feathered we flyfor the sun kissing the sunflower fieldsfor years of the future soothing the woundsfor […]
Broken by dawn
From duvet-warmth entangled,boisterous dawn entersto tickle our toes;pulling the bed-sheets, spillingheartless daylight,harsher than snowfall in Aprilon our middle-aged bodies;exposing pale flesh,wrinkled and sadexposing the smudges and stainsthe night had graciously […]
Fear itself
Fear the sirens calling you at 3 AMfear a crowded subway stationfear the darkness of the copse beyond your gardenfear both truth and liesfear the roar of diesel enginesfear the […]
Winter’s end
We season springwith silence,cease to speak;and sit to sip our tea;we listen to the eagershift of wingsfrom a wren awakenedto the scent of last year’sleaves consumedby greedy earthworms;we sit and […]
Björn Rudbergs writings 