When the unknown becomes the normaround which routines navigate,when insecurity reignsbut hands and feet continue to moveto feed to nurture to sustain. When our hearts beat with hopebut the ‘look’ of our tomorrowsrefuse to take a sustainable form.When adult children overseasfeel the constrains of closed bordersand locked down family lives.When helplessness, and despondencywant to become ourContinueContinue reading “Emotions & Closed Borders”
Category Archives: Poems
The Real Foothold
LivingDays merge into nightsfrom one event to another in this world so bright.People meet,work here & work there – socialise,have a drink or two and sit down to eat.Read, write & with entertainment replete -loads of playing to suffice. A FootholdYet not a single nook nor crannyfor a foothold for my soul.As I go throughContinueContinue reading “The Real Foothold”
Moment of Making
I imagine what went into our moulding and shapingYour loving attention to each one of us at the moment of making.I see careful fingers divinely poised over the infant frame -Folding protein, furling DNA,Planning our potential, numbering our days,Breathing sacred breath into receptive clay.Yes, I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Talitha Mathew, 2023 With kind permission fromContinueContinue reading “Moment of Making”
The Ladies Loop 