'This is the news' - one thing, one thing, one thing, one leaf'

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An intuitive poem of 2 mins 45 written in a few minutes after listening to 'The World at One' on Radio 4 and then looking outside. 

Feeling a  great need for calming ... and the birds and the trees spoke to me x

So wonderful writing these, having no idea really what will emerge...
the process of writing and then reading them is always so surprising and calming for me.

'This is the news' – an afternoon poem

This is the world at 1.45 says the news presenter on Radio 4. 

This is the news, firmly, this is the news at 1. 45. 

This is the news, says the wood pigeon outside my window. 

This is the news, says the collared dove who comes 

to eat at the bird table with her. 

It's all okay Rowena, it's all okay. 

After the fighting, after the darkness, after the killing, 

after the bruises, it's all okay Rowena.

And then the purring, the mala all along, its Buddha beads, 

my cat, in orange and white, breathing and purring 

like beads. Ginger. And softly sliding 

through different doors. 

A myriad to ignore, these doors.

It's all okay Rowena. 

Feel the earth in your hands. Gritty, grounding. 

Outside of culture. Voices. Life out there. 

This is life. This is the world. 

To in here. In this culture, this extraordinary richness 

in this soil. 

The morning spins and it is gone. 

The birds are still here. 

Onka, onka, onka. 

Flitting through myrtle leaves.

One thing, one thing, one thing, one leaf.

One shiny, one satin, one thing, Rowena, one thing. 

The sycamores in their perpendicular bowing are in agreeance. 

Their branches are knotty, one thing, one thing. 

Bare, weighing up the wind. 

Comme ci, comme ça 

they say in the breeze.

The camellia is full pink, blooming pink, and so healthy, so well, 

so new, full of buds and blossoms, 

she calls to me.

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