Goldfinch chant
a cluster of yellow daffodils
faces the rising wind.
Good Friday He hangs in
agony; scourged. Easter Day
risen; hallelujah.
Deerpark forest – I stroll
between blue sky and bent grass
my fear leads the way.
In the foreground
frothy water hops between rocks
feeling fenced in.
………..
Antoinette Rock lives in Cavan. Her poems have appeared in The London Reader, Windows Authors and Artists, The Moth, North West Words, Skylight 47, and other anthologies. Antoinette was commended in The Blue Nib Chap Book Contest, and commended by Happenstance Poetry and Westport Poetry Prize. She was also shortlisted in Bangor Poetry Competition.