by Jan Hedger | Oct 18, 2024 | Poetry
Sinuous in my silk gown, I slip seamlessly though the enveloping white mist, its droplets, glinting like diamonds, caught in the tendrils of my hair. The mist is ice cold, alive and swirling and I am flung around like spun sugar. Scarlet streams of blood, leave my...
by Jan Hedger | Aug 12, 2023 | Poetry
A taper in the sinking blackness, the only glimmer of hope in the mosquito infested cell. A thin, tick mattress and a scratchy blanket bringing no comfort was all he had to lie on. Constantly shifting to stop the rabid scraping, with encrusted fingers, of the raging,...
by Jan Hedger | Feb 3, 2021 | Uncategorised
Two boys, Barely men With ash blonde hair, And soot stained skin In a peaceful life They would be friends, or kin, But, in this war-torn world Neither would live to see who would win Both twenty-two With, an invisible vision of victory, Marched forth...
by Jan Hedger | Feb 3, 2021 | Uncategorised
Wild WatersSnow white palm, brittle as glassRed wine sky stained with poison,Flesh falls in fields of violence while, Rain taps upon tobacco-stained fingertipsDeath, lingers, in the shadows of trees,Whisps of hair, flutter in steel cold wind.Youth halted in time; age...
by Jan Hedger | May 25, 2020 | Poetry
Slipped dress off plastic hanger felt it’s crisp cotton lightness fingertip touch of buttercups and daises a sash of lilac stroked her sun-kissed skin. Breathed in a new memory of meadow-sweet and cup-cakes and small bare feet, running through warm grass. Folds of...
