Poems
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a winter poem
By Stacks Poetsby Ondine Evans
those smooth rainy days of winter that wind on,
clock stuck at ten am all day long, -
A poem for my favourite bird
By Stacks Poetsby Keztril
She sits on crate in shower
and waits for someone to come home -
Library Animals
By Toby Fitch(after Shakespeare)
She follows me up
to the eighth floor of the library -
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late night radio – flicking through the channels
By Stacks Poetsby Keztril
people of the night
leave keys by the door
I’m a gonna take you -
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Images and visions
By Stacks Poetsby Keztril
Such a long time
it stretches…
each step taken leads further into memories -
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A list of worries (to be whispered to a worry doll)
By Stacks Poetsby Ondine Evans
That the sky might fall on my head (too much Asterix in my youth has made me fearful in that regard)
That I may tumble headfirst down stairs, escalators, any steep incline (a fear of falling - off things, in love, out of favour)
That time will catch up with me (snapping at my heels) -
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i used to
By Stacks Poets
by Nicky Hurle
I used to envy your life
Lazing by the fire, Not a worry in the world -
Martin Place Drudgery
By Stacks Poetsby Ondine Evans
I see the wheels of progress churning away around me,
The crowds are pouring past in their anxiety,
The advertisements spurring them to greater urgency, -
Careful
By Stacks Poets
by Nicky Hurle
Please be careful , love, today
So much can cause you harm -
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Windows
By Stacks Poetsby Ondine Evans
all day i stare at you rather than through you,
into a world behind a screen, not the world outside glass,
a world that has threads, memes, trends, likes, and followers, -
Love is a four letter word
By Stacks Poetsby Ondine Evans
What is love?
A soft kiss on my lips, -
The Library of Names
By Eileen ChongToday is about finding out. Fill in
a card at the desk. Write your name
with a pencil. Print if you know how. Drop
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Library
By Judith Bishopafter Czeslaw Milosz
Snow showers, lionesses, bakeries,
summer beds, armed rangers, -
Grade Eight
By Andy QuanConfession: I volunteered. Since, I’ve purposefully omitted
‘library monitor’ from my C.V. But why disavow?
We didn’t play rugby. It was a way to delay marching
back to our boring homes, four best friends -
