TIGER DRINKING AT FOREST POOL (Ruth Padel Poems)
Water, moonlight, danger, dream. Bronze urn, angled on a tree root: one Slash of light, then gone. A red moon ...
Ruth Padel Poems (8 Poems)
HERODOTUS IN EGYPT REMEMBERS DELOS (Ruth Padel Poems)
The ground verdigris, fluffy with young mosquitoes. Waters as sacred as these, as fatted with reeds. Bronze palm planted to ...
TRIAL (Ruth Padel Poems)
I was with Special Force, blue-X-ing raids to OK surfing on the Colonel's birthday. Operation Ariel: we sprayed Jimi Hendrix ...
THE APPOINTMENT (Ruth Padel Poems)
Flamingo silk. New ruff, the ivory ghost of a halter. Chestnut curls, * commas behind the ear. "Taller, by half ...
ICICLES ROUND A TREE IN DUMFRIESSHIRE (Ruth Padel Poems)
We're talking different kinds of vulnerability here. These icicles aren't going to last for ever Suspended in the ultra violet ...
WRITING TO ONEGIN (Ruth Padel Poems)
(After Pushkin) Look at the bare wood hand-waxed floor and long White dressing-gown, the good child's writing-desk And passionate cold ...
NIGHT (Ruth Padel Poems)
(published on BLINKING EYE, http://www.blinking-eye.co.uk/writer/padel2.html ) Then spoke the thunder, shattering the looming blackness of our national life. The rumble ...
Kiss (Ruth Padel Poems)
He's gone. She can't believe it, can't go on. She's going to give up painting. So she paints Her final ...