Marc Perry

      
    

Marc's first self published book of poetry: "The Noisy Tree and other poems" has been described as: "A work that clearly expresses the poetic mind - amusing and emotional - relating to the continuous struggle of life, the pursuit of beauty and love, of survival and serenity, distress, frustration and pain from loss and betrayal."

He is a lover of music and cats (both of which appear at random intervals within his work) and is influenced by the beauty of the West Wales countryside where he lives and his work supporting adults with learning difficulties.

He recently won the annual competition at the Ceredigion Museum in Aberystwyth to celebrate the two millionth visitor.

POEMS

Painful Bricks

Brain dead, brick red,
stacked high, scratching sky,

see how you climb to the small
slit windows
divided by mocking metal bars,
imprisoning moon and stars
beyond my reach.

Billy asked a question
the nurse didn't like,
you sealed him up in a
room of white
to sit for five solitary years,
every shadow made him flinch,
his words escaping to a distant place,

he has not spoken since.

You broke my heart
and Billy's too,
cementing our voices
into the walls of our lungs.
A week you said, as I took
the open door and made a start
on a life I gave myself.

Brick red, it is you who is dead,

not me.


Journey

When I escaped from God
I discovered tree,
holding within the green of its crown
the promise of autumnal fire,

and stars salting the heaven's carpet
with silver and pearl,

mountains changing expression
with each passing cloud that
wipes their brows,
as they give a stoic stare
skywards,

grey and blue patchwork sea
that cries its tears upon
the granite that holds it,

and sun and rain,

moon and owl,

lovers and song,

and then God discovered me.