the stairway of stone narrow steps between narrow walls leave the light and step down descend the dark passage to your fate enter the room against your will manacled at the wrists to the wall to the left a wall to the right a wall within sight a wall a difference arms, wrists seek reach out, do not quite touch the cold stone shelf nor the plate you cannot see nor the hot steaming food you can only smell in the dark you now understand realize your fate, and the souls of every spirit they break in the Room

Web Design by Douglas Elves. Water reflection photograph by Linda Jennings.

Alison Owen Nicholls

Alison joined the Stroll of Poets' Society in 1992. She has published two collections of poems, "I Can Say I Knew You", and "The Versified Tarot"; a second edition of the latter with illustrations is planned.

In 2001, two of her poems were published in a limited edition, coffee-table book, of twelve art-pieces and twelve poems, "Imaging Time".

A 3rd chapbook collection of poems is also in the works.

POEMS

Poet See Thy Fate

Prehistoric Swamp

For all the Christian Riders

Gargoyles on the House of Stairs

Mayne Island Gift Shop: A Spirit Guide

Global Warning: I

Aurora Borealis

Decision: 1990’s Alberta

The Room

A Poet’s Ally

Jerry Garcia: the Dove, the Hawk and Blue Dragonfly

1963: Grade Five Friend

Thoughts to a Mystery