Somewhere to put my thoughts - bits of poems and stories and ideas and songs and jokes and other nascent rubbish.

Thursday, 7 January 2010

The Challenge

Looking ahead was only a way

To see what was backwards -

A mirror blocked my path:

My own reflection blocked my way.


A tea-bag brushed the lip of the pot

As it orbited around in the space above,

And as it moved away the pot closed itself.



I turned the corner past the church,

With a bass guitar!

Soon the banging sound was all drowned out

By noise explosions!


My fingers were alive -

I drew a smile without opening my mouth!

Without words! A triumph worth? One hundred pounds!



Back to square one. But someone else is here, now, too.

Really trying to align this sense of a routine,

But my goodness, but how it is quiet here.

Just our footsteps down the well-lit street -


The pavement shimmered,

And your fingers

Came alive!



Looking up, the snow was charcoal

Against a chalky sky. Looking down, it was white

Against a wet black wall.

It was a matter of inclination.


You are not some paltry image!

Good grief. What is that under your skin, telling a different story?

I knew it. Come here!

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