New Poetry by Scottish Writer DS Coremans #FoDiByLi Sunday 19 September 2021 Senryu - Still HereYou are still with usas ever you were before;your presence still strong.2021©DSCoremans Villanelle - Three Years Three years, too many, already.Without you here to guide uswe have become little more than steady. I know we would never have felt ready,but... Continue Reading →
February Musings – Broken
I feel broken, yet I’m not really sure why…nothing has changed. I have come to learn. Something that others have known far longer. I need time to grieve, for someone long since gone from my own life. I am full of sorrow for someone whose journey has ended, far too young, and I must face... Continue Reading →
Villanelle (Elegy) – for Kris
If that which I have learned is to be believed;I am left shaken and full of sorrowand long has it been since we were bereaved. I think of all that we together achievedin forgotten yesterdays; no more tomorrowif that which I have learned is to be believed. Long since our cords of life were weavedor... Continue Reading →
Senryu: Loss
Loss of a legend A tangible reminder Lives through memory
Sonnet: A Mother
A daughter, sister, friend and a lover, She was all of this before a mother. From a child she became a woman grown Her precious time was rarely spent alone. Inherently passionate and caring, Above all else she was kind and sharing, Of her love, her time and all she could give, Through the... Continue Reading →
Sonnet: Hear the Silence
Sometimes the silence is too difficult To listen to, to hear, to acknowledge It can be filled, but it always returns Every return harder to filter. Each time that you are forced to acknowledge, That the only voice, for that you listen, Is the voice you must accept, you cannot Hear again, as it... Continue Reading →
Response to: On Holiday
My response to the post: On Holiday I’ve been in a cottage in Skye now for three days. A holiday that was almost cancelled at the ninth, tenth, and eleventh hour. Yet one which thankfully went ahead. After mum passed in September, we had no choice but to pull together as a family. This... Continue Reading →