Mary Queen of Scots

Sailing across an uncertain sea,

Her white veil trails

 The wind of things to come,

While her thick golden train flows behind

Like the waves in the wake

Of warm colours now gone.

So she fills her cold castles

With France and her beauty 

In defiance of shadows

Not her own

And dances her way over stone floors 

In riches, decorating herself 

Her own throne.

C. LJ Ireton 2019

The Star

The Star

Knew

We'd been looking 

In the wrong places - 

We did not consider 

That light

Would settle in

Sawdust and shadows

Where it was needed

Most - 

So she held out a hand

In suggestion.

C. LJ Ireton 2019

Words

Seas shaped by syllables 

Talking trees to life

Earth made from whispers

Forming wheat fields overnight

Underneath spoken stars

We search for echoes on the wind

So we can speak your language 

Into worlds yet to begin.

C. LJ Ireton 2019

Cat Haiku

Cats are royalty

And yet they make you feel like

You are the royal 

C. LJ Ireton 2019

OCD (6)

Calm, calm

The noise, the lies

That fly around your brain

In swarms

A storm

Halt the formation 

Call them down

Call them down 

See, see

The swirls of black

That circle up and up

To harm, 

Attack

Catch them reshaping 

Send them back

Send them back.

C. LJ Ireton 2019.