#510 -- edge-phobe's (things fall off)

 

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edge-phobe’s

 

things can fall off

cups – full, empty

 

whether in them or not

take the ecliptic – that’s a trip

 

idle speculation leads to

things fall off for a fact

 

poetry is personal – full of

friends, relations, dust

 

and out of the blue

your phone, for instance

 

from crescendo, cadence comes

magnets overstretched

 

remember when washing fell from the line

or wish upon a star?

 

ledge edge, climber from the peak

wash windows, just the one mis-step

 

could drive the plot

now we come to the market

 

or climb to the top of the tree

view take in there, edge out to twig

 

from precipice, things fall

in principle you understand

 

and pave a way with good intentions

yet … too many things on my desk

 

the pile so tall, unread – don’t look

consider – ‘off your rocker’

 

likewise the proverb’s bucket kicked

things can fall off – wheels from the cart

 

and some have fallen off the waggon

while others rise and we know where this goes

 

ember up from fire

a wobble topple from the dark

 

spiders won’t as a rule, and cats all fours

have you noticed stars to wish?

 

camels’ backs and needles’ eyes

a tumble through the flag

 

was meant to catch us

caught us out

 

from the top of my head

and the tip of the tongue

 

out of these socks

and I among

 

mist from mountain

shall we hurtle, dark angels down?

 

rare plummet from the perch

or where the evidence is lacking

 

so a tree unleafs

and grapeshot windfall

 

sunglasses make the clouds

always more classic

 

at sea, in an aeroplane, top of a tower

pride before you-know-what

 

sun from the sky-sill

later moon too

 

not a question of intention

but the way they go

 

it’s not the fear of falling

it’s just the fear you’ll jump