Thursday, 18 September 2025

#2089 - poem in real time

 


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poem in real time

for wise surprise

 

door ajar

a draft

 

by hand

dream these streets again we’ve borrowed

 

days, a busk – too much of me

 

and birds float through

 

a first thing in the heart

seeping stain

come tongues, taste

 

bake it up – serve bright

 

a cigarette, the train comes

 

the fallen words brushed aside

 

in the yestering

nostalge it – sing

 

bones of it

a wisp away

 

my paean to life, the marvel

under lock and key

 

where pick up speed

 

the poem is reached by ladders and ropes

a burnished cloud at the head

 

machine for idiots, the day

nights dreamt and gone

 

and some fool fly comes in to die

must have let it in

dance around the object till

 

not so much lo and behold

as get a wriggle on







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