Monthly poem - September 2019
MICHAELMAS DAISIES
i.m. Olive Dehn 29.9.1914-31.3.2007
Michaelmas daisies
milk the air with mauves
so that butterflies rest
their rusty wings
holding back the dark
with velvet hinges
and my mother comes in,
holding flowers,
the late ones,
asters, crocosmia, nasturtiums,
and she holds back the dark
with her stories, her hands, her mind.
September twenty nine,
the day Archangels feast against
the curse of winter
and the long nights’ increase.
The clues that she left me
almost always rhyme.
Photo of Jehane Markham by Heini Schneebeli
Jehane Markham is a true poet...
her poems glow like impressionist paintings.
Adrian Mitchell
Love wells up out of Jehane Markham's
work... it made me cry.
Gillian Allnutt
To contact
Jehane Markham
please email
jm@jehanemarkham.co.uk
For CV click on link
Norfolk house: Mary MacCarthy
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Sixteen Sunsets - Poetry meets the Blues
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Now available on Spotify
Events
Poetry Reading Highgate Library
Jehane Markham, Linda Black
and Martina Evans
7pm Thursday 10 October
Chester Road
London N19 5DH
020 7974 4444
New Audio poem
Above and Below The Water Line
Click to link to listen
Workshops
3 Autumn workshops in Norfolk
September 7, October 5, November 2
2-4pm £10
Hindolveston Village Hall
Hindolveston NR20 5DB
