Poem In the Window – Peter Roe
In This Place…
In this place
people will respect words
There will be
no throwaway comments
no barbed wire banter
There will be
no tongue lashing
no twisting of words
In this place
words will be handled
with care and consideration.
Helpful comments
will be collected with soft gloves
and delivered as care packages
to those who need them most
In this place
politicians will take back their words
eat humble pie
and learn to build bridges
In this place
there will be no holding of tongues
those without voices will be taught
how to speak from the heart
Because word of mouth
speaks volumes.
In this place
words will be free
The verbal balm
the talking cure
that is a hug for the soul
with echoes
that are truly endless.
Peter Roe – June 2024
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Peter Roe is an alliterating, artistic, autistic, prize-winning performance poet, writer and Bard of Dorchester.
He is the Managing Editor of The Jawbone Collective and small press publisher Wessex-Media. The collective has so far published five Devon Poets including Poppy-Jayne Jones who he ‘found’ at Word Stir in The Castle Book Shop. He has been widely anthologised and is the author of three poetry collections and a novelette, Odin and The Mead of Poetry.
He is host and compère of spoken words events Jawbone Online, Jawbone at The Poet Laureate in Dorchester and Bridport Apothecary. Peter has a background in technology and education, he runs workshops for The Jawbone Collective, Schools, Museums and other Arts Organisations. He is a Community Health Champion who believes passionately in the role of creativity as an aspect of personal health and mental well being