Showing posts with label year of the snake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label year of the snake. Show all posts

25/02/2013

Seven more miles to go


Time for a new collection of poems and songs and bits and bobs that I'll be collecting along the way. It seemed to start this year with Snake River (see previous blog, a poem about our local river which isn't called snake river but the timing of writing it coincided with the Chinese New Year [year of the snake] and I can't think of a better title right now than a line from it, Seven More Miles To Go. The photo is from one of mine from the garden. I'm guessing that, as always, journeys will be a theme.




07/02/2013

Snake River


Mist rising from the river
Seven more miles to go
Green light city
Caught up in the flow

As dreams fly, cormorant shape on the clean sky
Who knew this heart would carry me so far from home

I can't sit and wait for you to notice
How far we've travelled from
All those things we took for granted
All those promises undone
A cold night fading into yet another day
I can't wait for you to notice
We're travelling the wrong way

Mist rising from the river
Seven more miles to go
Green light city
Caught up in the flow

As dreams fly, cormorant shape on the clean sky
Who knew this heart would carry me so far from home