Tonight
raging thoughts
unable
to sleep
I realise
that like a red rag
to the bull,
for the poet
beginning
to write winter’s last poem
on the white page,
when snow
no longer
arrives,
there is longing –
empty the
charged field.
Copyright © Julie Sampson 2018
Julie Sampson’s poetry is widely published and she has been listed in several poetry competitions. Her poetry collection Tessitura (Shearsman) was published in 2014.
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