Sharon retired from her job as Principal of a sixth form college in 2015. Since then, she has been learning to write poetry again, after a break of 40 years. Many of her poems celebrate the beauty of the Isle of Portland, where she lives with her husband. Recent poems have been published in Three Drops from a Cauldron and Atrium and are forthcoming in The High Window.
Reflections, Upwey
After M.C. Escher
headwaters seep
from chalk downs
through limestone,
spill from the rock
springflow a thin glaze
on a sandy bed
purls downstream
pools deep under trees
crowsfoot, moss
and watercress
thread the crowns
of hazel and ash
leaf-fall floats yellow
on pearl-grey cloud.
Sharon Phillips
