Monday, 29 September 2025

71. Gillian Swain's 'Not so light' - for Clark Gormley

 

 




Not so light


Gillian Swain 



 

Sometimes no amount of springtime

will shake the weight of winter

the kind rained in with sadness.

 

Not the filtered sunlight

not the soft shield of leaves

nor the shrill colours singing from the yard.

Not the clear endlessness of new blue

nor the soft pillowed pink of dusk.

 

Some springtime is overshadowed

the lilt of a day with unleashed sadness hangs

the way tree branches 

seem to sag 

and ache

looking for sunlight.






 

 

 

1 comment:

  1. a poem about grief - conveyed so well I identify with it. Great title.

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