The Poems

'What does not return?'

This poem was first published in The Sacred Feminine: Open Skies Poetry Collection on 28th September 2021 Past pain Liberation is at hand...

I am paper

This poem was first published in The Sacred Feminine: Open Skies Poetry Collection on 28th September 2021 One page amidst a forest Words...

The Hermitage

This poem is about Warkworth Hermitage in Northumberland and was first published in Agape Magazine on 4th September 2021 I feel the pull...

Work

Shrouded in Darkness Breathing moist hot air Damp seeping Into every crevice Naked shoulders Taut and sweat riven He existed only In this...

Menopause

This starts off as tongue in cheek, but conveys a real message that there is a vibrant life after menopause. My undercarriage has slipped...

Revenge

My eyes focus on pictures engraved upon my heart, as I see the dark night filled with anguish. You stood hesitantly there, paused with...

Footprints in the Rock

This is about our impermanence in the greater scheme of things. Footprints in the rock, of long ago giants gone. Reminders of what once...

The Horsemen of the Apocalypse

I wrote this at the start of the first Covid Lockdown. The horsemen of the apocalypse Rode to my front door With disease in the lead Had...

The Doubting Nun

When you listen you also need to discriminate don’t just accept everything you hear. Indeed, sometimes what you are told can lead to a...

Anorexia

Sometimes the voice inside your head can lead you astray and give you a distorted vision of reality. Hence this poem called Anorexia. I...

christine fowler POETRY