by Orna Ross | Jan 19, 2020 | Poetry |
Some poems (not many) arrive complete. Most take days, maybe weeks, sometimes even months to get to that state of completeness where no more can be done. They are as pure and as perfect as they're ever going to be. Some just won't let go. They keep asking for...
by Orna Ross | Dec 8, 2019 | Poetry |
My Poetry for Christmas collection has been updated to take in a new poem, which you can access now either by supporting my Patreon page or buying the book. If you hurry, you can order a special signed edition which I'll mail to you in time. (Email Sarah:...
by Orna Ross | Dec 1, 2019 | Poetry |
This month's exclusive poem for patrons is a Christmas poem “Soaring”, inspired by the Chrismas lights on Picadilly, London. SOARING In darkening afternoons damp air that tastes of sleet and wind, we dodge between the honk of taxis, buses, cars and other...
by Orna Ross | Nov 3, 2019 | Poetry |
I am putting together a collection called Dark Night: Poems for Hard Times and this month's exclusive Patreon poem for patrons: Passing On, comes from there. It's a bereavement poem called “Passing On”. It's exclusively available to patrons from today for...
by Orna Ross | Oct 27, 2019 | Poetry |
The trees in London are spectacular at the moment. This particular beauty, its dazzling shade of yellow, gave me a new poem: Tree Alert. I wrote it too late to include in my book of mindfulness poems, published yesterday, but it would have fitted nicely in there. If...