Chris Shaw : Writing

Things I Wish I’d Said

Things I Wish I’d Said

A Poem by Chris Shaw


Muse is wearing rhyme
Hope

Hope

A Poem by Chris Shaw


Never give up on hope.
Wind Song

Wind Song

A Poem by Chris Shaw


(river musings)
A Life Lesson On Men

A Life Lesson On Men

A Poem by Chris Shaw


(from father to teenage daughter many years ago)
Tilted to Red

Tilted to Red

A Poem by Chris Shaw


(Someone’s misfortune)
Conversations

Conversations

A Poem by Chris Shaw


look at how the vast sky is rose tinted this morning as noisy seagulls wing their greedy way to land on old cobbled stones on a harbour’..
Felt

Felt

A Poem by Chris Shaw


(A recent dream while suffering from COVID)
Destitution c1900

Destitution c1900

A Poem by Chris Shaw


there they are captured in sepia shades outside a closed front door a young mother evicted from a damp terraced slum a toddler in her arms a..
Shade

Shade

A Poem by Chris Shaw


the sunlight in my garden blinked and switched off cold what happened to those leaves of birch that flaunted all that gold cast they are in sh..
Holding On

Holding On

A Poem by Chris Shaw


an august birthday finds auntie out of this world within a communal lounge in the company of other wanderers and sleepers comfy with cushio..