Sunday, 23 October 2022

 I found this one a short while ago, written in August 2020.  It reflects the fragile feelings we were all feeling and the hope that we would soon be rid of the disease...




 Eggshell

 

Let me recommend eggshell

and we will start at the centre,

with all the fragility that is, eggshell.

Then we will walk out from there,

together, holding hands, closely linked.

Into the next circle that turns us

around and around, our shoes loosely held

feeling the way with tender soles.

No map to guide us, just

instinct to preserve us.

We can walk and talk on and on

into the azure blue day.

 

Vivienne Sansum August 2020 


This story was highly commended in a recent competition! Red roses on a white fleece dressing gown   Violet sits upright on the dusty middle...