Shell
Blue shell of a sky
sitting upstairs like a sunhat
waiting for its poem
Poem and photo by Rachel McAlpine CC BY-NC 2.0
writing
Mr Poem
You glisten
like that skinless
diving helmet
that bubble that pads
and isolates and listens
and lets other people
leap in, be wrong
or right
or different
that space
whispering
over the page
~ Rachel McAlpine (poem & photo of 3 birds) CC BY 2.0
Say less
Say less.
Mean more.
Win the match.
Lose the score.
poem and photo by Rachel McAlpine
Morning feet
Interface
of tai chi feet
and icy tiles
of round on flat
of dry on wet
of soft on rock
of pink on black
A single moon
lopsliding off
to let the morning in
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Rachel McAlpine 2016
Lovers apart
Lovers apart
spin cobwebs
round the heart.
In the office
did you think of me?
Thought not.
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Rachel McAlpine
Don’t be
Don’t be too hard
on your ex,
who was frequently
faithful to you.
Surreptitious
Friendship slips
out the window
when lovers shout
and part.
It may ring the doorbell
later,
when neither hurts
not wants
nor waits.
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Rachel McAlpine
Spirituality is not
Spirituality is not
a gift shop.
Not yodelling or mazes
or crystals or church.
A reluctant noun,
it would rather be
a private verb,
a silent move
like go or flow
or sting or stray
or love.
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Once upon a time
Once upon a time there was
a once upon a time
and it lived in a cottage
with a mother and a father.
It was grabbed by an eagle
and married to a monster
and is living ever after
once upon a forest and a time.
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Rachel McAlpine
(Image from Rod and Gun, 1898 via Internet Archive Book Images)
Metadata rag
Put a bit of metadata
in a little metatag.
Then the automatic tagger
puts your bit of metadata
in a better metatag.
Metatagger, metadater
metabigger, metabag
metadagger, metabragger
metabugger, metanag.
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Rachel McAlpine
Poems in the wild—Rachel McAlpine 