Secret Poetry
A sample my poetry may be found below. The poems have been selected from an extensive range of work produced over a number of years and are not found within my book, Leafage. Please click on a title below to view a poem of your choice, and click the 'back to contents' link to return to the list.
• Earth's Pawing Flesh
• Sixty
• The Misplaced Monkey
• The Moon Spinners
• Quarry
• Froggy Grumbles
• In Oceans...
• Where are the Shaman?
• Bird Dance
• Poetics of Death
• Aoteroan Dream
• After
• The Iron Horse
Earth's Pawing Flesh
Sunlight flickers, as does the fan
It opens in creases across the valley
Have you seen the ocean, its breath...
My world's flesh upon it
Dispell this dust oh dawn of mine
Take me as the brook to sea
Strip shadows with the sting of salt...
My soul's breath beneath it
Throw open the shutters of life
let light fold knowledge to nothing
All is new and spirit is the colour of this day...
My eye's view beyond it
Dance to the tune of stones
Their rumble bellows through time
Ancient words of wisdom echo on so...
My heart's pulse is of it
© Bariane Louise Rowlands 2007