Quarry my heart
To mine my mind
Ireland
You left me
Blind by design
So that I would break ground
In my own lost and found
And cross that shadow line
With words
That are mine
First published in The Galway Review JAN 8, 2025
https://thegalwayreview.com/2025/01/08/amanda-niamh-dawson-three-poems/
You are god
And goddess
Formed
Ever effacing judgment
Of single eyes
No angle
Is the sum of your parts
No center holds you
Brave chins lift
To meet your gaze
Wind showers light
In strands
And petals dark
Mist clings
To your shadows
Birthing worlds
You twist and spin
To a tune all your own
In time
So much longer
Than us
First published in The Galway Review JAN 8, 2025
https://thegalwayreview.com/2025/01/08/amanda-niamh-dawson-three-poems/
Go to the woods
Carve your hearts
In the ground
Dreams can be born
Quiet from sound
Tying truths
In known knots
Can be felt
By all hands
First published in The Piker Press DEC 30, 2024
https://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=10770
I gather up this valley
It is my brightest realm
The feathered leaders
Stand down
Letting me take the helm
Art is mounting
Air is lifting
Lands are forming
Colors sifting
Space so pure
The lost outdoors
Clasp it tight
What’s mine
Is yours
First published in The Piker Press DEC 2, 2024
https://www.pikerpress.com/article.php?aID=10769
Light step, star lady
Sing a song
Stop the world
From falling long
Into the depths
Of wishes wronged
Pierce the layer
Silent sayer
Time will warp
To hear the prayer
Stillness leans
Into breath’s beams
A pause
Applause
Where words
Birth dreams
First published in Hudson Valley Writers Guild NOV 27, 2024
https://hvwg.org/2024/11/four-poems-amanda-niamh-dawson/
Might as well be blind
Facing you
So unkind
Losing my mind
Forest sits
Looking on
Bending to calm
Charms are gone
Years undone
Meanness won
Battle drum
First published in Hudson Valley Writers Guild NOV 27, 2024
https://hvwg.org/2024/11/four-poems-amanda-niamh-dawson/
Stripped down
The one who wears the crown
Grows to great heights
Tallest tree in sight
Left standing
Alone
Its network
Dethroned
Avenues laid bare
Redwood dust kicks up
Blank stares
Lift an ax to this god?
Beware
First published in Hudson Valley Writers Guild NOV 27, 2024
Peregrine falcons curl up and cry
Screeching from skyscrapers
Their forests died
Light forsaken
Rivers of people
Looking up
Gaping
Ballasts unburdened
Ships did make them
Walkways of mayhem
Tunnels and sewers
Steam underground
Best party brewers
Lifelines indoors
Nervous system endures
Asbestos air smothers
Speed wins undercover
Families hold tight
Their crumbling monasteries
Luxuries gliding on
Polluted soup estuaries
City of blight
City of might
Enter at your own risk
By the lady with the light
First published in Hudson Valley Writers Guild NOV 27, 2024
https://hvwg.org/2024/11/four-poems-amanda-niamh-dawson/
Bleed my heart
Bleed my mind
Run from kindness
In disguise
Blythe awakening
Rob me blind
The gate is closing
Spirit imploding
Blasted in time
First published in The Stray Branch #34 Vol. 31 Fall/Winter 2024
Borderland
Sleigh in hand
Eye the dart
Clouds a lifting
See them breathing
Dark storm rising
Birds are fleeing
Take their cue
To a world anew
First published in The Stray Branch Issue #34 Vol. 31 Fall/Winter 2024
https://www.thestraybranch.org/fall-winter-2024-issue/