She was out there again that morning.
Talking, laughing, singing,
The garden filled with sweet birdsong
And the aroma of summer.
The sunset leaked red blood,
Annihilating him.
A love gift or a
Romantic invitation.
She had one eye, he had two.
He was waking from a fitful dream.
It soon became dark,
The sky full of storms.
He saw her solemn death dance,
Wet and electric,
An Autumn widow wearing grey.
It was starting to happen again.
Natalie Crick, from Newcastle in the U.K., has found delight in writing all of her life and first began writing when she was a very young girl. Her poetry is influenced by melancholic confessional Women’s poetry. Her poetry has been published in a range of journals and magazines including Cannons Mouth, Cyphers, Ariadne’s Thread, Carillon and National Poetry Anthology 2013.
© 2016, Natalie Crick
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