The latest challenge set by dVerse Poets Pub - specifically, by Dora – is to write poetry such as might be carved onto a wall at the entrance of a garden, a building, an enclosure of our imagining.

Dora’s original challenge is here.

Today I am cheating by linking back to a post from two years ago in which I introduced the “title” poem from my fledgling poetry offering of 2014, ‘the route to grace’.

The poem ‘unruled‘, from 1994, refers to “rules” engraved on “chilling book of stone”.

I offer it as graffiti on the lintel of my life-doorway; at the threshold where I loiter with intent…

I haven’t “reblogged” before so I don’t know whether this will work.

Here goes:

Poem: unruled