Sara Davis

Tonbridge, Kent UK

 

Sara Davis lives and writes in Kent. She is a member of Roundel poets. Her poems have appeared in South magazine, in The Dawntreader and in the collection Links in the Chain. 

 

Poem completed 8th May 2020

 

Daily Exercise, April 2020

Each day we venture out, follow

the black stream under tart-green oaks,

as the water runs, cold as grief,

in lithe curves from weir to weir.

 

            We look up, listening

            to the woodland sigh like the sea,

            search for hope in the empty sky.

 

A young man waits, watches his child chase

shadow-dapples along the earthy bank,

while her foal-legged sister tangles

starry ramsoms in her hair.

 

            We pause, approach slowly.

            Their father makes space for us to pass,

            we share a greeting with a smile.