Birthdays and Poetry - am I game enough

Its a lovely Saturday morning, a little cloudy but cool and I love the cooler weather.  There is definitely an autumnal air which affects the quality of the light - great for musing and photos.

Its birthday time - lots of friends and family are having birthdays in early March - happy times, although some are a little sad at the increasing wrinkle factor - me I am happy to be turning 57 on Monday.  Once you have had the big C in your life and been through the chemo etc process, ageing means something a little different - well  to me anyway:)

Over the last few days I have been immersing myself back in the English Literatures and writing etc and it came to my attention that I had not actually been brave enough to post any of my poetry on my blog.  Well here goes, today I will post the first poem, titled Music....

The song plays

Notes ripple nimbly

Along the harp strings

I feel the sound ripple

Tripping surely over

My heart strings

I feel such warmth

Gently coursing through

My soul’s life-blood

At last I’m heading home

I know where I belong

My heritage has claimed me through its song

My heart-soul search for belonging

Is almost at an end

As the chords of the song reached out and held my hand.©

I also discovered that Overland has a blog and some great posts:  the link is below if you are interested - check it out.

http://web.overland.org.au/2011/03/so-you-think-you-can-write-poetry-noetry-and-constructive-criticism/comment-page-1/#comment-10987