Believe

It’s happening, the odd crocus
edges out between rocks and trees,
blue tongues licking crisp sunshine
at the feet of near-stripped trees;
telling us it’s becoming warmer and lighter,
forcing us to believe that there’s life after hard-bitten hail,
snow and frost that sprayed our breath
in those black mornings.

Tom Kelly
The Wrong Jarrow
Smokestack Books

http://www.smokestack-books.co.uk/books/kelly.html

The Wrong Jarrow: Purple Patch collection of the year.

‘Believe’ appeared in Poems in Waiting Rooms and will appear in the New Zealand version of pitwr later in the year.

Waiting Room Poems
Poems in the Waiting Room (PitWR) is a registered arts in health charity which supplies short collections of poems for patients to read while waiting to see their doctor. In a patient centred NHS, poetry arts in health too needs to be patient centred. The readers are patients – the worried well and the worried sick. The poems draw from the springs of well-being. In time of trouble, a measure of comfort is welcome The poems cover both the canon of English verse and contemporary works – poetry from Quill to Qwerty.

Here’s a link to their site:

http://www.pitwr.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/

And here’s a link to reviews on the collection:

http://www.tomkelly.org.uk/the-wrong-jarrow-review/