Poems - JP Melville

Funny Thing About Independence 17 feb 1988 jp melville

Constellation 5 June 2020 jp Focus is an art…   (says he who is notoriously not…)   How not to be distracted by constellations so everywhere above and at our feet…. Wherein we are ourselves a constellation.

After Long Days of Travel 5 June 2020 jp After long days of travel A night passes And I open my eyes in this strange abode Rain… Distant thunder… Dog sighs… Drops pattering on roof… Glass distorted wetness… Wind rustles leaves… Contented aloneness In my mind’s emptiness Awaking with dawn From sleeping on the floor Of a wooden shed Dog sighs again Rain patters some more… My skin cool with solitude Caressing my weariness away.

  I Whisper in Your Ear 5 June 2020 jp I whisper in your ear… “Away with confusion, haunting, loss…” For I am here with you, Listening to the rain… the wind… The silence   between their voices…   Knowing they will tell you so.