Poetry

Here I will happily share some of the poems I have written.

I hope you enjoy and please feel free to let me know your thoughts.

Death of a Window Cleaner

Standing at the
window she stares,
hand touching the soft, silky shield,
protector from his
prying eyes.

Wild Stallions rage through
his head, like a thousand nightmares
a mind
possessed
to wreck and ravage
from within.

Quick, she removes the curtain,
laid bare, like a thrush
to a sparrowhawk
the chill of a phantom touch on
her skin.  No movement stirs
but he is
watching, waiting.

Shelley Fallows 2012


Window to the World

Sea becomes sky
blending landscape with clouds
a smudge in the distance.
Fireflies sparkle
as sun hits water.

Surfing the swell
with fish, seaweed
abandoned bottles.
Faster and faster
we fly over waves.

Sea endless sea
unravelling silk
to distant lands.
Travellers together,
we gaze absently onto the world.

Shelley Fallows 2012