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Jan Hedger

Poetry

Love is an Alphabet

Awakening to the sun’s weak rays; only just managing to filter through the voile curtain, draped gypsy style, covering the expanse of cheap double glazing – Leah let the music wash over her. ‘Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone...’ Choking back the lump forming in her dry throat, Leah…
Jan Hedger
1st March 2016
Poetry

Crose Mere

Great Tit sings unseen from bare fingered branches; whilst man is in view Grebes stretch graceful necks on rippling silver mere; whilst man is trapped ashore Skylarks dance on air defying gravity; whilst man is floundering Cloven footed bulls spread their weight evenly; whilst man is sinking
Jan Hedger
24th September 2015
Poetry

‘Two Geese Go A Visiting’

‘Do you fancy a day out?’ Said Mr Goose to his missus ‘A day away from the clucking chickens and mooing cows, tractors and bale making and this little pond’. ‘Yes’ said she ‘we can go to Cole Mere; it’s lovely in the spring.’ ‘Let’s pretend we are wild and…
Jan Hedger
24th September 2015
Poetry

Five Senses of an April Day

The bows across the violins bending the oatmeal grass. She heard Vivaldi The rich dark peat beneath springs radiant energy. She felt Earth and Fire The pas de deux of balletic butterflies in the briefest love She saw Romeo and Juliet Sweetened butter adorning spikes of flowering gorse. She smelt…
Jan Hedger
24th September 2015
Poetry

Black Water (Whixall Moss)

Time for me is immaterial as I lie waiting – a deep hollow of entrapment blackness leaching into my sunless soul a completeness of no reflection. I am totally blind, but I can sense movement – and I wait. Why am I waiting? I wait because I am starved. Starved…
Jan Hedger
24th September 2015
Poetry

The Fabric of my Being

Iridescent green encases my inner jewel of life beginning – unsheathed purple plumule and gold leaf– exposed viable for germination. Strands of molecule threads branching out analysing atmosphere – unemotionally fabric of forest floor – explored for viability of womb. Revere my embryonic complex maze of concentric circles - uniquely…
Jan Hedger
8th September 2014
Poetry

Entrenched am I in the letters from him…

Entrenched am I in the pain of him of missing him of the fear in him Entrenched am I in the heart of him of anger in him of the change in him Entrenched am I in the depth of him of caring in him of the soul in him…
Jan Hedger
7th September 2014
Poetry

Knight to Black Night

Resolute in hardened steel of armour Ended lives with a slice of his sword Fought with valour, fought with pride Learnt to hate the crusading invasion Erstwhile gone, in a warriors time Cried like a babe at what he'd done Turned his back on the Bloody Battle Coward they labelled…
Jan Hedger
15th April 2014
Poetry

Stormy Weather

Open to the Elements Gusty air rips limbs tearing down; exposing life beneath roughened bark Seeking Protection Lee of wall shelters huddled sheep; mass of woolly blobs against the grey Bersham Spoil Tip In storm ridden skies Jackdaws circle; symbolic of discarded men Weather, Seasons – a circle Winter storms…
Jan Hedger
20th February 2014
Poetry

Haiku’s POW challenge

Monsoon A single bubble falls on parched land, preceding thousands to follow Innocence of a Child Spring lambs leap from the picture book in child’s hands, as she dreams their freedom Parenting Carefully chosen nest sites protect spring babies nothing is random Seeking Strong Genes Capuchin female was vivacious in…
Jan Hedger
20th February 2014