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Showing posts with label Dawn Van Win. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dawn Van Win. Show all posts

Tuesday, 16 November 2021

Imaginarium

 Imaginarium 

 

By Dawn Van Win


 

And at eventide 

Shall we wander

Through vast avenues

In storage vaults

Where life’s river leads

Larger still

Than all of Amazonian facilities

 

Our warehouse

Of abandoned dreams

The countless possibilities

Of who we someday

Could have been

 

A slowly reverent walk

Down dusty halls

Shelves stacked to the sky

Down either side

 

Then gently reaching out

Our hands

Caress the edges,

Shapes and forms

 

The bittersweet sting

Of smiling tears

Remembering 

so many years

Of ‘some day’, ‘one day’

When work is done

 

Can we attend then

To this sum

Of all that is

Our Life’s true calling

Held within

This moment’s mourning 

 

Perhaps our fingers

Chance upon

A dangling thread

Unravelling 

 

A breadcrumb trail

To start the search

Into a box 

Left on a shelf

 

Refusing there

To be abandoned

This dream still flickers

And calls our name

 

Wipe tears away

Find packing knife

Unwrap the box

That holds your life

 

Copyright Dawn Van Win

Saturday, 26 December 2020

Somewhere…

                                                                       Somewhere… 

By Dawn Van Win

 

There is a terrace

Beside the sea

That gently laps

The soft warm sand

Beneath my feet

That slowly tread

A well-worn

Path

 

Along the shore

‘Neath cobalt skies

Where soaring gulls

Express their cries

Of airborne bliss

Untethered from 

Life such as this

 

Where shut away

From day to day

Through fear and dread 

Of Covid spread

By one and all

We do not know 

So keep our distance

Try to show

Some reverence 

for saving space 

Whilst wearing masks 

upon our face

 

Then shuffle through 

Dark winter’s gloom

Whilst meeting loved ones

Over zoom

I sit and ponder 

days gone by

And look out at 

the stormy skies

The clouds above us

Briefly part

I feel the sun

And in my heart

I know

 

There is a terrace

Beside the sea

That gently laps

The soft warm sand

Beneath my feet

That slowly tread

A well-worn

Path


Copyright Dawn Van Win



 

Sunday, 6 December 2020

Playtime

 

Playtime 

(ode to a muse)

 

By Dawn Van Win

 

Here she comes skipping up the path

She loves to sing, she loves to laugh

The little girl who comes to play

Can brighten almost any day

 

Without a worry or a care

And rainbow smiles for all to share

As she finds the toys I’ve placed

To see that smile upon her face

 

But it is not always thus

Sometimes I fail to earn her trust

With long delays between our dates

And saddened by those fickle fates

Who pile up things both large and small

To keep us distant from it all

 

I try to pause and catch my breath

And notice feelings of neglect

Of that which is most pure and true

And filled with light of every hue

 

Returning to our sacred space

I’m hopeful that this child of Grace

Will once again deign to return

And from her I shall strive to learn

The lessons only she can teach

Which are not far, they are in reach

Inside of me when full of joy

We play together with our toys

  

Copyright Dawn Van Win

 

 


Tuesday, 20 October 2020

Ink Blot #1

 

Ink Blot #1
 

By Dawn Van Win

 

A man in a hat

Took a dog

For a walk

Companionable silence

The dog

Couldn’t talk

 

So on they strolled

‘Though they didn’t go far

The dog had bad hips

The man

Had no car 

 

 

 


 

Monday, 12 October 2020

Escape



Escape

 

By Dawn Van Win

 

A bird in

a cage

 

A door

ajar

 

A feather

dropped

 

Too late

 

 

 



Wednesday, 2 September 2020

Garden Magic #2


Garden Magic #2

By Dawn Van Win


Sandy, loamy, soggy clay
Find a garden
Go and play

Get that dirt
Beneath your nails
It is a balm
For all that ails

Sowing seeds
And tilling earth
Coppice wood
To fill the hearth

Growing veg
To fill your belly
Feels more worthwhile
Than watching telly

Planting flowers
Of every hue
Connects us to
Our nature true

So if you’re bored 
Nothing to do
A garden somewhere
Waits for you

To co-create
And get involved
Whilst re-connecting
With your soul

Copyright Dawn Van Win


Wednesday, 26 August 2020

Ode to a Blog (and all you lot! :-))


Ode to a Blog (& all you lot!  : - ) )


By Dawn Van Win

How do I value thee
Let me count the ways...

In times of Covid crisis
When the whole world feels shut down
You are a valued safe space
Where our work is shared around
All members and the wider span
Of folk around the globe
Can come and read 
And share our tales 
of mystery and hope,
Adventure, joy and derring-do
And subjects many varied 
(I’m listing just a few!)

This magic space in a virtual sea
A home to share and so connect
Our words and rhymes 
With one another
All members of RLWG

Our blog meister extraordinaire
Len of course, deserves a mention
All of this here brought to exist
By his ever true attention
Not only posting to and fro 
All work we do submit
But timely updates
Informing all of latest numbers hit

The times indeed 
‘They are a-changing’
As Bob so rightly sang
so in virtual spaces
Like our blog 
Our hat, coat and verse we hang
Until we all may meet again safely sharing words and tea
There’s not much more that I can say
‘cept I miss our writers' gang!

Copyright Dawn Van Win



Friday, 17 July 2020

Pay Heed


Pay Heed


By Dawn Van Win

Butterfly wings
Beat inside
A bell jar 

Longing for release
This muse

Listen,
Be ready

She will be off
Before you know it 

Copyright Dawn Van Win


Wednesday, 15 July 2020

Baldy Pants


Baldy Pants

By Dawn Van Win

No ones’s going to notice
No one’s going to care
So put your pants on back to front
And shave off all your hair
Wake up each day
Rejoice anew
And go and be
Your you-est you


Amongst the crowds of insta-clones
Who twitter in a huddle
Rise up and dance your happy dance
And give yourself a cuddle
Because it’s hard
This simple thing
In living we discover
By bravely being our true selves
We shine lights for one another


And so when passing on the street
We can never really say
Just who may need a shining light
To help them see the way
Back to themselves
Their one true home
And know that they are not alone

Copyright Dawn Van Win

Tuesday, 14 July 2020

Garden Magic



Garden Magic #1                 

By Dawn Van Win                                    

Seeds resting in
A furrow deep

Awaken from
Resplendent sleep

Soft rain falls gently
From above

And beckons life
To grow
In love


Copyright Dawn Van Win


Wednesday, 20 May 2020

Reaching Out

Reaching Out


By Dawn Van Win

Reaching out into the dark
Not knowing what we’ll find
Whilst gently stepping onwards
Through the spirals of our mind 

For all the secrets ever sought
Are hidden there within
And connecting to our deepest source
Can never be a sin

If we could just sit quietly
And let them be revealed
So many hurts and bitter words
So easily would heal

By bravely reaching out 
and being seen we may discover 
Our kindred, Spirits, burning bright
Give hope to one another

So when in gloomy troubled times
Of uncertainty and doubt
These simple words, a breadcrumb trail
Beloveds please reach out

For you will find us gathered here
All resolute and true
Your tribe sit waiting patiently 
To welcome home You

In all your fragile splendour 
And your beauty unrefined 
Your value is immeasurable
Indeed you are Divine! 

By Dawn Van Win

Tuesday, 19 May 2020

Reflections


Reflections



By Dawn Van Win

This Golden age of treasures rare
A time to grow a time to share
Your lessons learnt with sweat and tears
So pause and now release your fears
And drink it in, this time and place
Where you are now, your progress traced
Created by your life so far
Upon this spinning blue, green star

Then sifting through this hard-won soil
Through 50 years of joy and toil
Time to reflect, rejoice, refine
And gather in all that is mine
To nurture it and give it space 
And raising up a smiling face
To mother moon to thank her so 
for love and light which helps us grow
She shines so bright through deepest dark
Revealing treasures in our hearts

We see the way on from this place
So once we’re rested, filled with Grace
We carry on, refreshed, renewed
Another year, all rainbow-hued
To turn the soil, reveal new seeds
And watch them grow
Follow their lead
With courage, perseverance too
Each cycle time to learn anew


one of the beautiful murals at Diamante, Calabria - artist unknown

Copyright Dawn Van Win



Tuesday, 12 May 2020

The Gathering


The Gathering


















By Dawn Van Win
                        
‘Twas All Hallows on that night
When at the beach I saw a sight
That stirred emotions raw and mixed
I stood there watching quite transfixed 
Was I 
By this strangest sight
Of women dancing in the night
By moon so full
In nature’s thrall
They had no clothes on
None at all!

Initial thoughts of fear and dread
Gave way to something else instead
When once I may have run and hid
I thought I’d join them
So I did

They welcomed me with open arms 
The sea it beckoned deep and calm
And so we stepped into the brine
The moon continuing to shine
It’s wondrous light 
on spirits free
All gathered in the name of She

These mothers, daughters, sisters too
All with an inner calling knew
To come here to this wildest place
And dance and laugh and raise a face
Up to that gentle silver light
All shame and doubt had taken flight

And so on Hallow’s Eve each year
All of those tales of dread and fear
Of vampires, bats and walking dead
Are just a veil placed to distract
The masses 
from this simple fact
That while some gather to trick or treat
And shuffle up and down the streets
A smaller group, perhaps a few
Who knows exactly what to do
Are summoned by our Mother Nature 
To seek a wild place for adventure 

So if your granny, daughter, mum
Pops out the door with errands to run
And it seems late, the witching hour
Don’t make her wait, 
She feels the power 
of this time, this special eve
When of her senses she may leave

And though you may not recognise
This fiery light behind her eyes
One usually so meek and mild 
She has an inner, wilder child

It isn’t that her nature’s switched
It’s just her inner, knowing witch!


Copyright Dawn Van Win