Leaf by Seán Hewitt
"For woods are forms of grief / grown from the earth. For they creak / with the weight of it."
Wrong Turn by Luci Shaw
"I took a wrong turn the other day. / A mistake, but it led me to the shop where I found / the very thing I'd been searching for."
All Woods Must Fail by J.R.R. Tolkien
"For though dark they stand, / all woods there be must end at last"
what they did yesterday afternoon by Warsan Shire
"later that night / i held an atlas in my lap / ran my fingers across the whole world / and whispered / where does it hurt?"
The Broken Sandal by Denise Levertov
"Where was I going? / Where was I going I can’t / go to now, unless hurting?"
The Road Goes Ever On by J.R.R. Tolkien
"The Road goes ever on and on, / Down from the door where it began. / Now far ahead the Road has gone, / And I must follow, if I can"
Rain by Carol Ann Duffy
"Then the rain came, like stammered kisses at first / on the back of my neck. I unfurled my fist / for the rain to caress with its lips."