For my Daughters: Known Vistas and Those Beyond Limits
If I could,
I know I would
gift the Border Ridge to you –
stone flagstones paths
to gain
raised slopes on Windy Gyle.
You’d picnic
and sit sheltered
by Russell’s Cairn’s stacked stones.
Gusts of Scottish southerlies
would burst the air
and finger
your loosed braids
of curly English hair.
Any season of the year,
happy or troubled,
the purpled green of curving hills
and waves of vales
would draw you here
to sit wind-blown,
in peace, and marvel.
You’d see so very far,
over wild-played
contour lines,
the views
of ups and downs
to which the only bar
is distance,
never difference.
Have faith,
that what’s beyond
your sight
and frames your life,
weaves tapestries
of charity and art –
though sometimes
you might lack
sufficient height to see it.
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Biography
Ceinwen lives in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She writes short stories and poetry. She has been published in web magazines and print anthologies. These include Fiction on the Web, Alliterati, Stepaway, Three Drops from the Cauldron, Snakeskin, Obsessed with Pipework, The Linnet’s Wing, Blue Nib, Picaroon, Amaryllis, Algebra of Owls, The Lake, Ink, Sweat and Tears, Riggwelter, Poetry Shed, Southbank Poetry, Smeuse, Bandit Fiction, Atrium, Marauder,Prole and The Curlew. She was Highly Commended in the Blue Nib Chapbook Competition [Spring 2018] and won the Hedgehog Press Poetry Competition ‘Songs to Learn and Sing’. [August 2018]. In 2017 she graduated with an MA in Creative Writing from Newcastle University.