Caoineadh

This poem is for my Dad...the excellent art work was done by my good friend Addy





In the dimming hour
when light
bleeds away in a
fractured second,
when all the world is grey,
you fled astride wild horses
up a lonely mountainside
to ride among the clouds.
I see you moving
between the shadows,
the throaty laughter
of your voice is heard
in the clinking glasses
whenever whiskey’s poured.

cat haiku

A cat haiku I wrote after watching my cat in the grass.


summer's end—
grass blades caught
in the black cat's mouth

All the shades of blue

Colour is something we can associate with things that are often too hard to express in any other way.

My lips turned blue
when I couldn't breathe,
oxygen stolen from
my lungs by the force
of his rage.
they matched the pattern
on the sterile walls
of the room I woke up in
blue for calm, blue for peace
blue bruises on white skin.

I remember floating
on a flowing sea of blue
watching over the shoulder
of a blue shirt turning red
swirls of rust in a bright blue sky
my blood on his hands
as he chanted "breathe, breathe"
and I screamed, unheard,
until my lips turned blue
and the world faded to black.

Shadows

I wrote this as the title poem for my poetry book.

shadows cast on clear mornings
patterned light across the ground
finding the infant steps of courage
and mocking their dance.
Remembering the last time
I walked kicking through the leaves, breath frosting
silently in the evening cold,
I breathe in and out to prove
that I still exist somewhere,
crying when I have to and
washing the pavement clean
with the tears that escaping
shadows brings.

words from kat

This is the place to find kat's words. I have a couple of poetry sites but theyre time-consuming to update and don't have the ease of a blog to work with. So this is it...short stories, poetry..whatever. Welcome to the sister blog of the Bizarre Rant.