GAS Featured Poet: Wendy Webb

     Wendy Webb (she): Born in the Midlands, home and family life in Norfolk, keen gardener and photographer. Published in Indigo Dreams, Quantum Leap, Crystal, Envoi, Seventh Quarry, The Frogmore Papers, The Journal) and online (Littoral Magazine, Wildfire Words, Lothlorien, Atlantean, Radio: Poetry Place), Writing Magazine 1^st Prize (Pantoum). Wrote her father’s biography, and her own autobiography. Favourite poets: Dylan Thomas, Gerard Manley Hopkins, John Burnside, the Romantic Poets, Emily Dickinson, and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

Current poetry collection: LOVE’S FLORELOQUENCE

Fellows, All  

Our fellow creatures,

how to breathe life into fur

or feathers, hair or bald.

I shall, indeed, grow bolder

by each word,

my hoof/claw/footprints

resist sand or rock, 

pools of dreams.

You want to know

cute foibles of movement?

Of course; the large eyes,

depth of vision,

cruelty endured.

So many fellow creatures

demanding support,

protection,

cash and endless devotion.

Are creatures animal kingdom?

Can I plead for the flea?

Empathy, the bee, the butterfly,

tree rooted 1,000 years.

Whispers in the stars, seas,

air we breathe.

Stone, Plainly  

closing down sale

due to retirement

after many years

trinkets or art

inexpensive

craft or gifts

pausing ornaments

realistic prices

to treat a special

appreciative

friend or

bestie

green with gazing

not cheap   nor

to wrap   send

bought polished

insignificantly

priced stones 

gave special

wild moment

in friends’ pockets

if every bought

stone given to

embryonic ghosts

I could

not carry

such load