Poetry by Peter Devonald
Solace has a song for you, waiting, waiting, amongst the torrent.
If you don’t choose a day to relax your body will choose one for you.
Noise corrupts and absolute noise corrupts absolutely,
loud whirr of technology never stops, incessantly, ceaseless,
Instead sit in nature, listen, listen, to bird song and insects
reaffirm connections beautiful and obscure.
Take time to read, enjoy and endure your deeper self.
Be someone else, briefly, brilliant and captivating, memory.
Reconnect with friends, remember, remember, the times before
it all changed with vibrant neon, obsequious pleasures, glinting.
Recall the times before you weren’t connected to the miracles,
when simple pleasures were miracles enough to live exquisite.
You know what you really need, you always did, glimpsed
through endless noise and rain, you saw yourself, standing there.
The noise can wait a week without you, trust me, believe in me,
believe in silence, the seas, sagacious shift to embrace serenity.
Peter Devonald is winner of two Heart Of Heatons Awards, Waltham Forest Poetry and joint winner of FofHCS Poetry Award 2023. He has been published extensively and has two Best Of Net nominations. Poet in residence at HAUS-A-REST. Visit www.scriptfirst.com or https://www.facebook.com/pdevonald.
