PAM MOYLE
March Morning
The hills look mean today,
great clenched fists of life
punched from the earth,
their knuckles grazing the skyline
where clouds scowl, stalk low.
Hostility seeps through sandstone.
Mist-curtained paths slip away.
The only sound a chainsaw
relentlessly grinding trees
that climbed these hills.
Community Nurse Wonders
It makes me wonder
as I drive between visits,
to see tranquillized women,
their stomachs pits of nothingness:
their heavy hearts
and empty eyes.
It makes me wonder
about those tablets
with forked tongues
that dried the wells of tears
waiting to be tapped.
It makes me wonder
and I think,
‘we don’t want tablets,
we want diviners.’
Pam Moyle lives in rural Cheshire. She is a retired clinical nurse specialising in drug and alcohol dependence. A member of Chester Poets, she won their national poetry competition in 1983. Pam is the co-founder of the Re-Act Drama Group which uses poetry, music and drama to destigmatise mental health issues. She has been published by Peace and Freedom Press,Chester Poets, Poetry Press, Frank Latham's History Books, Cheshire County Council, Cheshire Life and Cheshire Vista.
