A Face in the Crowd

20/11/2020 – Poem a Day Compilation



I only saw you for a moment

A fleeting observation

Capturing my heart briefly

Then releasing it once more



Your hair was dark brown

Like rich chocolate cake

And if I’d known you

I’d have wanted to run my fingers through it



Your eyes sparkled like diamonds

Piercing, pale and blue

Cutting through me

Like a hot knife through butter



Your skin glowed in the afternoon light

Radiating a warmth of soul

That I would not see again

For a great many years to come



I only saw you for a moment

A fleeting observation

But you stayed with me

I have not let you go ever since.

Standing in Line

26/07/2020 -  Poem A Day Compilation



Standing in line

To enter the stadium

Surrounded by the noise

Of thousands of voices

Chatting and cheering

Excited and hopeful

Waiting for the gates

To swing open

And be ushered in

By underpaid security

Who dread the end

When the fans exit

And those who lost,

And drunk too much

And ate not enough,

Want to take it out

On someone convenient,

But, for now,

It is calm

If not quiet

And the buzz in the air

Is jubilant.