Poetry Blog by ray pool
THAT'S WHAT MUMS ARE FOR
Goodbye Enid goodbye
Sunny Stories had me gripped
on go to bed now days
learning words
those animal eyes
gazing fondly into the past
fluffy clouds and garden pots
other infantile harmless plots.
As my chrysalis parted
other thoughts began to rise
all taken care of by Mum
Reveillie, Titbits,
salty images,
girls folding and bending
with hands behind t...
Monday 10th May 2021 10:54 pm
CHRISTMAS TREE
Inside the garden pot the ants
had been busy behind plastic
confined in their imprinted circuitry
patterns of labour, tunnels of itch
now suddenly disturbed by my wrenching
of the Christmas tree,
enough years serving its purpose
of annual celebration,
dressed with solar bulbs and red leaves,
lately abandoned
starved of nutrition but stubbornly surviving.
...
Monday 3rd May 2021 4:58 pm
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