Chris Shaw : Writing

Question

Question

A Poem by Chris Shaw


how many return tides over a lifetime of a local fisherman have licked cobbled stones clean on a slipway’s slippery incline wet now ..
Keep A Lid On It

Keep A Lid On It

A Poem by Chris Shaw


one day I too may be confined in this oak wood chest of ancestral treasure where the sepia rests with dust motes and old letters reveal a..
Revelation

Revelation

A Poem by Chris Shaw


(turning a negative into a positive)
Catkins Quiver

Catkins Quiver

A Poem by Chris Shaw


(Abundant and lovely to see)
No Lamb Today

No Lamb Today

A Poem by Chris Shaw


English garden mint in our herb border struggles in straggly seasonal neglect memories drift to mum’s Sunday lunches when a joint of Wels..
Says The Muse

Says The Muse

A Poem by Chris Shaw


(erratic she is )
Ruby For Us

Ruby For Us

A Poem by Chris Shaw


a date ringed in red on a February calendar fixed to an old kitchen wall saw the only snowfall of winter settle in hushed silence as a Liv..
Nottingham Knockers

Nottingham Knockers

A Poem by Chris Shaw


(door to door sales)
Dredging

Dredging

A Poem by Chris Shaw


on a day when grief felt weighted like lead in walking shoes when there was no relief would you understand why those last few grains of cr..
Like River Grass

Like River Grass

A Poem by Chris Shaw


behold tall bold river grass as it sways in a westerly morning breakfast breeze moving with overhead cloud before its flexible backbone ret..