Had I not heard you weep
seen your dull eyes
with heavy tears
roll slowly down
those thin cheeks
So, you had the nerve
to make a simple
response to his instruction
you behave as if
nothing had happened
it leaves me to wonder
why did you stay with him
do you think so much of him
and so little of yourself
to let him reduce you
to the shell of the beauty
that you in reality are.
Invisible
I could look at you
think that you are beautiful
but never tell you
I could look at you
imagine we could look well together
but never find out if we would
We could play
hide and seek
where you stand,
count to a hundred
when you open your eyes
I'm still standing there
In plain sight
and yet, you still can't see me.
Daydreaming
He weeps
seeing human interactions
Alone, he weeps
to hide his humanity
He sits by himself
Daydreaming,
watching good things
happen to others
he sits by himself with
book in hand to
read the words that
make him feel deeply
he sits by himself
when it's
a day for the rising moon
with sinking clouds
he sits by himself
to watch colour and image
on canvas sending waves
crashing on the shore
he hopes that
the red sky will appear,
the sky he loves, and goes chasing for
at certain times of the year
hoping it can be there to
lift and bring back old feelings
Old feelings and a mood that
long ago deserted him
but that he continues to
Search for in vain
trying to bring
these old dreams back to life
and have memories
he recalls
send a chill
that moves his heart.
If the stars don't appear
If the stars don't appear
and the sun doesn't shine
anything can happen
If day turns into night
and black turns into white
anything can happen
If the fields refuse to grow
and the forests turn into dessert
anything can happen
when our hate turns into love
and our Wars turn into peace
then anything can
really can happen.
Gordon Ferris was born and raised in Finglas, a North West suburb of Dublin. In the early eighties, he moved to Donegal where he has lived ever since. He started writing in 2014 and has had many short stories and poems in publications including Hidden Channel, A New Ulster, The Galway Review, Impspired Magazine, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and Live Encounters. He has also won prizes in the summer 2020 HITA Creative Writing Competition for his poem ‘Mother’ and was joint winner in the winter competition for his poem ‘The Silence’.
Poetry Ireland awarded Gordon a, Poetry Town Bursary in 2022.
In January 2023, Impspired published his first book, Echoes, a short story collection. In December, Impspired published his second book, A Mirror Looking Out, a poetry collection, under the brilliant guidance of the late Steve Cawte.
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