Poetry of place

  • ABOUT

  • POEMS 1

    • The explorer
    • Wednesday near Redfern
    • My Chagall
    • An observation on love
    • Happenstance
    • Sacrifice
    • Tribute
    • A fabric of bamboo
    • Eating
    • Petite morts
    • Paris 1954
    • Forever
    • The couple
    • A coming home
    • Decomposition
    • In a blue room
    • The actor
    • The possibility of you
    • The hurt
    • What there is
    • A disappearing
    • When fate says hello
    • Comes the coda
    • When it is said
    • An accidental love
    • Trust
    • Across the divide
    • Foreign intoxications
  • POEMS 2

    • Old Bar
    • This
    • Theatre
    • A time a place
    • The day begins
    • Where birds
    • Our weekend
    • What I like
    • Aftermath
    • Contemplation
    • The storm
    • Shelter
    • picnic at Elands
    • The long road to goodbye
    • A finality
    • A blue moon and blue jazz in August
    • Revisiting
    • Intersections
  • POEMS 3

    • Prelude to an ending
    • Some penumbral full moon
    • A Piscean Dream
    • 29 July 2019
    • Infinite
    • The place of returns
    • A fable
    • Wanting
    • Lake George
    • My wild beautiful horse
    • On Jeju Island
    • The soul gives
    • On the river Li
    • The Chilean Woman
    • An horizon
    • Liberation
    • From China with love
    • Kingdom
    • If...
    • The uncertain world of hope
    • Colours of Hui
    • Some other life
    • For Suzanne Joinson
    • Inheritance
    • Her
    • The boat ride
    • The veil
    • Garden
    • The awaiting
    • Hope
    • Bravura
    • Passion play
    • Concerto
    • Mary
    • Premiere
    • Dimension
  • More...

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    Where birds

    Where do I put my mouth

    Now you have taken yours away

    What do I do with these hands

    Without yours to hold

    Who do my feet walk towards

    When you are not in my life,

     

    Two magpies

    Fly about the grassland next door 

    Always two

    Where birds

    Poem written November 2015

    Copyright 2016 John Williams