One-Line Shrine 2007-2009

Quite often whilst reading a poem, one line jumps out and grabs you for one reason or another.  We would like to open the one-line shrine and highlight these exceptional phrases.  This feature will be run every two weeks and will also be displayed on the home page of the site.  Voting is conducted via email in the usual way to the address shrine@poetryretreat.co.uk


May 29 - Jun 11
Jamie Thomas
"The things, you do, for me, they fill, my heart, with glee, my head, it swims, to see, the way, you look, at me!"
May 15 - 28
Andrea Goertzen
"You wrote of love and promises, a future we would make, as I sit and read these words my heart begins to ache"
May 01 - 14
Meg Dodsworth
"Swirling misty crystal ball, spill your message tell them all, witches special magic brew or a tarot card or two."
Apr 17 - 30
Paula Buckenham
"I was talking to birds and flying a kite and swinging from the tallest of trees"
Apr 03 - 16
Jo Lodge
"Relaxing in the arms of the one I love, soft slow embraces, enclosed warmth and affection"
Mar 20 - Apr 02
Stella R. Clark
"You tenderly wiped my face and lovingly combed my hair, you soothingly bathed my feet And gently sat me in my favourite chair"
Mar 06 - 19
Sara Kerr
"Her teddy now a little worn, still makes her feel safe, he keeps an eye out for trouble and wipes the tears from her face"
Feb 20 - Mar 05
Anthony Walton
"I know my father the sky, my sister the rain, my brother the wind, all the children of the sun and my mother the earth"
Feb 06 - 19
Gaylene Wilson
"Saying goodbye, is almost like death, burying dead, or buried alive, is never easy"
Jan 23 - Feb 05
Sara Kerr
"Lying on your bed, looking up at the ceiling, not knowing what to do, not knowing how you're feeling"
Jan 09 - 22
Bonnie Mansfield
"She weaved a family tapestry on the land, her arms outstretched to welcome the young"
Dec 26 - Jan 08
Ruth Mesfin
"The Barmy man ogles with delight as the apple tawdry female gets ready for the night"
Dec 12 - 25
Jane M. Isaac
"With glee they pranced around the fairy ring, The moon shone down upon this pleasant scene"
Nov 28 - Dec 11
Jacqui Thorne
"Saturated by the resurgence of your love, a violent tropical storm engulfs the solitude"
Nov 14 - 27
Fiona Hamilton
"Happiness was loving you for the first time, knowing, that this was right"
Oct 31 - Nov 13
Richard Ward
"Sunrise night shades, masking me from a world I'm all too eager to discover"
Oct 17 - 30
M. M. Graham
"I’ve sailed to a lot of different places and I’ve lost and found so many faces"
Oct 03 - 16
Elaine M. Lord
"It's only by experiencing the heartache that we experience the good"
Sep 19 - Oct 02
Andrea Goertzen
"Cleaning out my closet, I found the antique cedar chest, full of old love letters, years before I’d put to rest"
Sep 05 - 18
Tanya Bolton
"Every breath in my body I breathe now in your name, my heart has been captured and you are to blame"
Aug 22 - Sep 04
Min Hewitt
"I feel your guiding spirit lifting me up high, I feel a life force surge through me as if you were passing by"
Aug 08 - 21
Anthony Walton
"I know my father the sky, my sister the rain, my brother the wind, all the children of the sun and my mother the earth"
Jul 25 - Aug 07
Valerie McKinley
"A moment that has become a special place, so special that whenever life grows dark for me, I escape there"
Jul 11 - 24
Matt Bowden
"Deep inside burns the rage when on my stage I am as free as a Bird, many miles from my cage"
Jun 27 - Jul 10
Meg Dodsworth
"In the cosmos shining bright. In the heights of delight. In the depths of despair. The everything Mother is everywhere"
Jun 13 - 26
Mary A. Shovlin
"How can I begin to give you back what you have given me? The effect, you especially, have had on my life"
May 30 - Jun 12
Fiona Hamilton
"Under translucent sheen, I stare with deadened eyes"
May 16 - 29
David Wright
"Precious moments for all of us to share, if we look all around us they are everywhere"
May 02 - 15
Tony Bush
"The boardwalk stretches like a sunshine catwalk by the sand and sea"
Apr 18 - May 01
Antonina Mickelson
"The stars were falling from the sky to the Earth without a care like an invasion on the reveries to celebrate the white winter"
Apr 04 - 17
Ian Sawicki
"Hand in hand, we explore soft themes with hearts alive travelling the miles"
Mar 21 - Apr 03
Gill D'Arcy
"Earth once a barren bare stark ground full of colourful flowers blossoming all around"
Mar 07 - 20
Riz McNaught
"Bitter sweet, you fill my senses Unbearable how it’s so intensive"
Feb 21 - Mar 06
Anna Cellmer
"I miss your touches only you know how to touch me"
Feb 07 - 20
Lavina Burgess
"With it’s petals still intact and not yet hurt...by the salty seas"
Jan 24 - Feb 06
Marinela Reka
"My love for her is in my soul, In my nails, and in the letters of my name"
Jan 11 - 24
Jenna Readman
"My heart sits in fear and pain that tomorrow someone could smash it again"
Dec 28 - Jan 10
Stella R. Clark
"Obsessed with feathering her nest, each victim she chooses carefully"
Dec 14 - 27
Martyn Thompson
"Maintain the classic Dickinson Scene, kept alive by companies keen to pay a pittance to some small child"
Nov 29 - Dec 13
Matt Bowden
"May her young life grow into a big beautiful flame"
Nov 15 - 28
E. J. Clark
"Can you touch your emotional voice, emotions that seem deep and dark"
Nov 01 - 14
Elaine Lord
"I never pretend to be anyone for I am only me"
Oct 19 - 31
Jo Lodge
"If you would like a dog like me.
Please knock the door and rescue me
"
Oct 05 - 18
Ian Sawicki
"The beautiful morning bathes in sunlight,
shades of magnificence dance in the day
"
Sept 21 - Oct 04
Ellie Chandler
"We don't always notice the beauty of time,
but I will from today because you are mine
"
Sept 07 - 20
Jacqui Thorne
"Saturated by the resurgence of your love
A violent tropical storm engulfs the solitude of my sleep
"
Aug 24 - Sept 06
Min Hewitt
"But to think with the brain of an ancient and always remain beguiled"
Aug 10 - 23
Zena Samuels
"And all that is left of the lonesome figure
is a frozen statue of poverty on the lawn
"
Jul 27 - Aug 09
Den Harley
"Do you try and reach out
to something that's not real?
"
Jul 13 - 26
Mac McGovern
"Wars not possible, if old men, are sent to fight'., -'Send old men, to the front, to fight, Arthritis, heart disease, poor eyesight"
Jun 29 - Jul 12
Ruth Mesfin
"Tears were poured over her grave, as she begins life else where"
Jun 15 - 28
Abigail Simpkins
"A Life stopped is a tragedy, but existing lives ruined could be worse"
Jun 01 - 14
Kenneth M. Johnson
"As winter dissipates from virgin spring,
temperatures rise as songbirds sing
"
May 18 - 31
J.P. Worthy
"Behind the door where no one sees
Stands the child that's born to never please
"
Apr 27 - May 10
Ellie Chandler
"She kept her beautiful, sweetheart shaped face
from a six-week old pup, right through her years
"
Apr 13 - 26
Mary A. Shovlin
"Go where you can't go, do what you can't do, say what you can't say, play mind games ..."
Mar 30 - Apr 12
Jody Beveridge
"Make butterflies and fly them in your dreams"
Mar 16 - 29
Abigail Simpkins
"Only feet between them, but they're now worlds apart"
Mar 02 - Mar 15
Sara Kerr
"The bad days seem to have overtaken, the laughs get less and less"
Feb 17 - Mar 01
Jody Beveridge
"I am not trapped I simply have chosen not to be free"
Feb 03 - 16
Martyn Thompson
"The hands that once held mine are now being held by mother earth"
Jan 20 - Feb 02
Geraldine McMullan
"As the sea breeze blew, I hid my tears on the deck of that great lonesome boat"
Jan 06 - 19 "He was very warm, but I was like the storm"
Dec 23 - Jan 05
Janice Gray
Dec 8 - 22
Jane Zimmer
"Personally for me I want for a while, to see Christmas spirit in my children's smiles"
Nov 25 - Dec 8
Fiona Hamilton
"We explored our new home till we tired, a haven for love we desired"
Nov 11 - 24
Martyn Thompson
"There is only one of me but my soul is for many"
Oct 28 - Nov 10
Emma Gascoyne
"Does the sight of our children innocently playing
Fill them with greed their souls decaying
"
Oct 14 - 27
Karl A. Hunter
"I've got this feeling down deep within my beating heart
A feeling that tells me that we'll never part
"
Sep 30 - Oct 13 Kenneth Johnson "Curled up on a park bench, companion, bottle of wine,
filling me with warmth, assurance all will be fine
"
Sep 16 - 29
Matt Bowden
"Rugged Faces to the Deep Crystal of the Blue"
Sep 02 - 15
Mick Bowden
"That’s when my parents were alive, I would tell them how much I love them"
Aug 19 - Sep 01
Anthony Walton
"For to battle with a woman’s mind, a man can never win"
Aug 05 - 18
Julie Preston
"What you see's what you get, I can only be me"
Jul 22 - Aug 04
Marian Dunham
"Each bloom that lifts its lovely face demonstrates your precious grace"
Jul 08 - 21
Kate Paterson
"In the lives of many she does feature, a creation of light, an angelic teacher"
Jun 24 - Jul 07
Bonnie Mansfield
"Those 'Golden Years', said to be the best some times end up worse than the rest!"
Jun 10 - 23
E. J. Clark
"with their mothers' voices ringing out; as bells that toll the dead"
May 27 - Jun 09
Sara Kerr
"I hope you know I love you, I will always and forever"
May 13 - 26
Cora-E Barras
"By colliding in love's wilderness two souls conjoined as one"
Apr 29 - May 12
Jane Zimmer
"I am the bully who just really wants and needs to be loved"
Apr 15 - 28
Abigail Simpkins
"The Silence is more devastating than the rape"
Apr 1 - 14
Leeta Chapman
"You are, therefore so am I"

 

 

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