September 2026
Do You Know You Are Great?
For a dear friend I am unbelievably grateful to have met.
by Jessica Condon
Character poetry
I don't want to make life pretty. I want to find love in the real.
I write character poetry that is light and honest. I am not interested in making life pretty, because the pretty version is usually the least true one. I would rather sit with the small, unglamorous details, the fruit bowl full of keys, the 4% battery, the hiya shouted across a road, and let them say what they mean. That is where I keep finding love, in the real.
August 2026
Sonnet for my Kona
Together forever baby, or at least til the finance is up.
by Jessica Condon
August 2026
Ode to She
On realising my own character is the only home I will ever truly live in.
For the self I keep finding.
by Jessica Condon
Spring 2026
The Spirits We Didn't Drink
The six-legged one. For a friend who listened to hours of nonsense and stayed anyway.
For Barry Hogan.
by Jessica Condon
Feb 2026
How Lucky Are We?
A birthday song, a sausage roll, and a flight that never took off.
by Jessica Condon
Spring 2024
In the Tapestry of Life
The knitting one. A patchwork of small things, stitched together with love.
For my grandmother.
by Jessica Condon
2020
COVID-19
Prize-winning poem in a COVID-themed competition. A real time capsule.
by Jessica Condon
2017
Untitled
Originally posted on Tumblr in 2017. A love poem to a guy I never should have dated really.
by Jessica Condon
2017
What could have been
Written in a time of singleness where it just didn't work out. As a serial monogamist, being alone is hard.
by Jessica Condon
2014
To Alice
A poem for a girl once of broken pieces
Always cheering for you.
by Jessica Condon