Two Poems By Jenny Dunbar

You and Me
  
Some one said the stardust fell unwittingly from heaven
unstrung, 
so fine in its spontaneity, mercurial in its traits
full of the alchemy the open seas and suns 
it bathed among had gifted, 
then gave to earth,
stranded in the gaps, far out and stilled 
its flow stemmed, 
its flux caught ‘til time’s season let it go
and earth bartered, stole,
off set the diamond, dulled its light
catching tears  

Who we were
  
Her words in the ocean’s pulse on a fine day
feet on soft sand,
smiles
I feel the sense of a place, where she becomes and is
the beginning
before
all this
unmade

Graduating from The Royal Central School in London, Jenny followed a career in the performing arts. Writer, singer and potter she has moved in many worlds always inspired by the juxtapositions in life. She is a published writer of poetry and fiction, her debut novel, Sweet Earth, was published in 2014 followed by her own anthology, Thoughts of Time, in 2016. Jenny’s work has been  included in anthologies and journals over recent years. Currently working on prose poetry, having completed a novel about supernatural ballads, she finds making bread a necessary distraction in these troubled times!