Juliet Wilson

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Today I begin a series of sharing work by other poets.... I hope to make this a regular event....



Juliet Wilson
two poems

Unblinded

 

Once, you heard space as soundscape,

felt distance stretch to the clouds,

smelt the leaves change from green to red,

touched to interpret shape.

 

Now the newly seen is mystery

a confusion of beauty -

too much miracle.

 

Eyes closed, you read the Braille

of your lover’s face,

feel her breath on your skin.

 

Her heartbeat in the dark.

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Stolen Fields

 

She remembers when these streets were fields

That stretched almost as far as her eyes could see

And slipped away to the beach.

 

Now she hangs her washing on a sad patch of grass

Where once she chased butterflies and lay in meadow flowers

Watching birds fly past.

 

She watches her sons play football on a concrete road

Laid on the fields where her brothers played ball

When they were very small.

 

She knows that the bulldozers have now returned

To dig up the small field behind the school

And make another street.

 

But if she half closes her eyes and sits without moving

She can still hear the birds and grasshoppers

Alive in the ghostly fields.

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note: 'Unblinded' originally published in chapbook Unthinkable Skies

Bio: Juliet Wilson is an Edinburgh based writer, adult education tutor and conservation volunteer. She blogs at Crafty Green Poet  and edits an online poetry journal, Bolts of Silk . Her poetry pamphlet Unthinkable Skies was published in 2010. She has collaborated with musicians and a film-maker on versions of some of her poems.