Kedgeree

Mother mine

Port Isaac maid

A tribute

To the life you gave 

You gave your love

Your magick life

To raise and guide

This awkward sprite

Made kedgeree 

To keep me strong

And when I sang

You heard my song

Paused your busy

Sat on your knees

To see my latest

Masterpiece

You wisely saw

Inherited smarts

Couldn’t compensate 

For a kind heart

Showed me that

The spirit world

Owed nothing to this

Loudmouthed girl

Create my own

Is what you prayed

Make it happen

Don’t be afraid

Responsibility

Didn’t always come

But you persisted 

Brave, tired mum

To know myself

You showed the need

For integrity

Thought, word and deed

You taught me manners

And not to blame

Be accountable

And hold others the same 

Invisible 

To all but you

My teens felt hard

We made it through

And now a woman

Here I stand

Sculpted by

Your artists’ hand 

Your music, magic

To me you give

A role model

Of a life well lived 

Your ear is there

And always was

Never reproach

Simply love

No matter the word

The deed or thought

You never judged

But always taught

I rebelled against

Your hippie ways

Went to the city

Tried “straight-laced”

But now contrite

My soul and bones 

Have returned to our 

Ancestral home 

Now Ma I find

Your Cornish song

Your way was my way

All along

And I consider

With clearer sight

That maybe mother 

Was always right!

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And his hands swept the sand
From my tame, slender frame
So he's inside my tides
In my wax and my wane

He blows breeze through my reeds
With each float and songnote
He's forever, and never
My valley of ghosts

Imperfectly

Call out my name like you mean it

When I dance and flash through the night

This coffee skin and these fiery eyes

Have you firmly set in their sights

An English rose and pauper

An African glamazon queen

Earthily imperfectly female

And you still seem to be keen

My hair is bristling nature

My body is flawed happenstance

My soul unpolluted and tactless

And you're still craving romance

My house has a door which is open

If you're brave enough to come find me

I've got laughter and song and food and love

And passionate poetry.

Moondance

You are sea, I am sand

You are water, I am land

Lap at my shore,

I’ll plunge to your depths

Whipped up by your current

Unearth my secrets

I am sand and you are sea

I am eternal, You’re virility

I have my storms

You have your swells

Whether friend or foe

Time will tell

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Tell me a story I haven't heard
Make me laugh or make me cry
Tell me a tale and if you don't have one
Tell me an entertaining lie