Welcome to Shards of Silver

Marianne Moore once defined 'poetry' as "Imaginary gardens with real toads in them". I found this such a striking definition of something that captures the values of poetry that I couldn't leave it alone.

I've been writing - attempting - poetry since I knew how to hold a pen(cil). Some poems I write I like, most I don't, but every now and then I feel compelled to write them down, like a flush of emotion that demands access to some sort of visible medium that can later be accessed and reconsidered. I thought, maybe, that sharing these poems could help me out a little. I welcome critiques, critical and constructive (though I do, of course reserve the right to ignore the sharper sides of people's tongues ;) ), and hope that in return for your help I can leave you with something better than sorry attempts at a craft which only a tiny few have ever really mastered.

Clear Skies~V

Sunday, February 28, 2010

Being Here

Being here makes me think
Of places I've been and might find myself
Again.
Somewhere along the way
I seem to have wandered
Off the track
To find myself not lost just
Walkabout.
If fairies live anywhere
Surely they live here in the fern gullies
Of the Tasmanian valleys?
Maybe my wandering took me too far
From you. 

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