Today's Sunday Inspirational Poem: Spinning Still

It's Valentine's week, so how about a love poem?

I wrote a version of this poem ten years ago, so it's an anniversary poem too, revived and revised as the days grow ever more golden.

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Inspirational poem: Spinning Still (Audio)

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Inspirational poem: Spinning Still (Text)

In the amber of a late October,

altered by illness

and a mauling from friends, we

have come again to London, and come

one to the other, in truth

it seems, for the first time

in twenty-something years.

These are our days. Above,

white lines from Heathrow

streak the sky, planes higher

than a tawny sun flash

underwings turned gold. Ahead

is Christmas but for now

the bang of fireworks and

the tread of traffic, dancing

to the drum of what must be done.

Not us, not now. In here,

with clothes removed, skin

cells open, one to the other,

once a day, we practice spinning love,

while the season holds us,

bathes us in the warmth

of something more.

It was you who led, male desire,

erect, unyielding, cut to our truth.

And I who thought of practice,

that way of being where we are.

So now we meet each evening

on a cushioned floor, our passing

and our coming life suspended,

in hours that know just what they hold.

Each time, it seems, anew,

each stroke the first again.

In this, our stilly autumn.

in these, our gold-spun days.

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Sunday Inspirational Poetry: Spinning Still

Inspirational poem: Spinning Still (Audio)

Inspirational poem: Spinning Still (Text)

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Orna Ross

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