Praise and Poems

Jocelyn Jones’ poetry has warmth and humanity, balanced with a down-to-earth spirituality that is a real balm for the challenging times we live in. – Colin Hambrook

There is a value to listening to this woman of water, whose insights swish around your body, sometimes chilling, sometimes cooling, sometimes drawing a mild perspiration as you also remember different aspects of yourself. I would give some of these words to my daughter because it can speak to youthfulness and I can also gift some of these lines to a wizened elder, for she too can find therein comfort . . . although there is disappointment, from time to time and from person to person, we remember, in Jocelyn’s words: ‘We are not yet done’.  – Mama D

Quiet

So quiet
I can hear
even a leaf fall

one perfect yellow beech leaf
twirling like a soft dance
to the woodland floor

a squirrel
thuds from on high
close to my head

all quiet again
he is collecting nuts
unperturbed

I contemplate
the fallen branch
home to mosses and fungus
and tiny things I cannot see

lying here quietly
no more concerning
than a log

I feel at home