National Poetry Day will take place on Thursday 28 September 2017 and this year’s theme is “Freedom”. Click here for a whole page of Freedom Poems. Here are three of mine:
High Rise Artist
I knew a man
who filled the only bedroom
of his twentieth floor flat
with wild horses,
huge canvases
depicting freedom,
they wouldn’t fit through the door,
let alone get as far as the knackered lift.
In the sitting room,
along with his bed,
was a new piece,
not horses this time
but a woman who had jumped
from her window
trapped forever mid-air.
© Heather Wastie
Mistaken identity
You seek happiness
and thought you saw it
in my eyes
but it was not
happiness, it was
freedom.
Find freedom
and you will find
happiness.
Understand freedom
and you will understand
happiness.
No matter how hard you look
into my eyes
you will not find happiness,
my happiness
or yours.
© Heather Wastie
Breaking the surface
Now that the heavy sheen is gone,
eroded by tears,
I am no longer afraid to
let the wild wind splatter my face,
lose my grip on rocks slippery with seaweed,
feel the freedom of floating
in a salt sea.
© Heather Wastie
