Breccia by Ruth Allen

Breccia by Ruth Allen

Contemplations

Storm at the Mull

a concrete poem scribbled at 3am under a windy lighthouse

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Ruth Allen, PhD (MNCPS)
Nov 24, 2022
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I’ve not written any poems for a long time, and to my memory I have never written a concrete poem (that is a poem with a visual shape) which I suppose this one has. But such is life in the middle of the night.

It is a draft, a murmur of thought, nothing more than that. Something was stirring in me during the small hours it seems, something that continue…

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