Chris Shaw : Writing

Taking Cake and Snapshots

Taking Cake and Snapshots

A Poem by Chris Shaw


Pam in party frock takes a giant step,lips pursed, breath ready to blast a gale.Six candles fixed in plastic holders flicker.I'm four, sip tea from be..
Mother's Ruin

Mother's Ruin

A Poem by Chris Shaw


(written after looking at William Hogarth's art work, Gin Lane 1750 and reading Wiki)
Though Lovely Is Her Memory

Though Lovely Is Her Memory

A Poem by Chris Shaw


Across the lea a north wind blows,soon follows on soft swirling snowto cover where the grass grows green.Into the distance, there aloneand flanked bet..
Highgate Cemetery

Highgate Cemetery

A Poem by Chris Shaw


A visit to Highgate Cemetery, London with Pandora a poet friend. Although it was a hot day she had shivers running up and down her spine.
If Your Face Doesn't Fit

If Your Face Doesn't Fit

A Poem by Chris Shaw


In an ice splintered twilightSits dark in the gloam'A bird on a wireThe others have flown.Perhaps they've migratedAnd left it alone?So I think of the ..
Interlude

Interlude

A Poem by Chris Shaw


Gentle waves of crystal kindness,edging closer to my feet,as I laze upon these pebbles,smooth and flattened on their surface,by the power of the sea.A..
Flightpath

Flightpath

A Poem by Chris Shaw


Playing with haiku
There Lingers Dignity

There Lingers Dignity

A Poem by Chris Shaw


Attempting a sonnet
A Winter Passing

A Winter Passing

A Poem by Chris Shaw


The price one pays in life for loveis grief, so when it grips you knowthe measure and the depth of itwhen passes on another soul.It took a fall of win..
Stones

Stones

A Poem by Chris Shaw


Before my Father died,he combed beaches for stones.Picked for surface smoothness,colour or shape.I picture him in my mind's eyeat Anstey's Cove,pocket..