Art, Spirituality, Meditation, Donegal, Ireland. Artwork, Painting, Printmaking, Etching, Poetry, Sculpture and Photography by Aoife Valley

Tree Flower

Selection of Poems

The Stranger
The Circle
Zero
The Butterfly
Salt Dog
The Old Bees
Empty Page
Chamomile
The Fall
Swim
Soil
Autumn Winds
Insomnia haiku
Beauty Broke
Poem To Ease
Two Candles
Swollen River
Innocence
Night Shower
Whole
Nature
Point of Blue
Gone
Emptying
Turning Point
Mary
In Caves
Morning Snow
Poet
The Path
The Virgin of the Abused
Snake Medicine
Intact
Black Tree
Disappearing Trace
Fine Spider Web

The Virgin of the Abused

Becoming the Virgin
Swathed in blue
As he moves
Like a blade
In and out
Year after year
I grow to become
A statue
Of a woman
Full of grace
But made of stone
And silence.