Rachel’s poetry

I find poetry (reading it, hearing it, and writing it) life-enhancing, enriching, and healing. I enjoy its capacity to distil and expand ideas, to disrupt and harmonize, to intrigue and illuminate.

I’m currently reviewing the poems I’ve written over the past six or seven years, and have started adding them here as a collection.

I never set to out to be a poet, but I’ve gradually realised how much I like using poetic form (and formlessness) as a way of exploring and expressing things that I can’t do with other forms of writing.

‘Son et Lumière’ - a long creative non-fiction poem I wrote about my Great Great Aunt Carrie, and her nephew Alf

Shorter poems - 2015 - 2023

Haikus

Here’s a haiku for you now:

Don't move the white vase
of roses; their petals come
undone at a breath.