Germ of a Poem
So far I'm managing to avoid the flu/lurgy that everyone around me seems to be coming down with.
Although yesterday I went over to Ayr and got really soaked while out walking with an old friend I've known since I was 11 years old. We see each other rarely, but somehow never lose the shorthand that exists between us.
I wrote this recently, it is pretty much how I feel at present:
germ of a poem...
It’s backlit marran grass,
a stranded yellow snail
chocolate on the tongue
a boy’s steely TV gaze
rain on a not so hot tin
roof.
Words collect, pool,run
together in my head,
but there’s nothing left
to say that’s not been
better said.
And here's a case in point. Holly Near's "I ain't afraid"
Although yesterday I went over to Ayr and got really soaked while out walking with an old friend I've known since I was 11 years old. We see each other rarely, but somehow never lose the shorthand that exists between us.
I wrote this recently, it is pretty much how I feel at present:
germ of a poem...
It’s backlit marran grass,
a stranded yellow snail
chocolate on the tongue
a boy’s steely TV gaze
rain on a not so hot tin
roof.
Words collect, pool,run
together in my head,
but there’s nothing left
to say that’s not been
better said.
And here's a case in point. Holly Near's "I ain't afraid"
posted by apprentice at
5:19 pm
5 Comments:
Amen to all of that! Happy New Year Anna.
Well that works for me:)
Keep dry!
I enjoyed that vid!
Keep well.
She's amazing. I just learned of her through an amazing choir called the Turtle Creek Chorale, a gay choir that has weather AIDS etc, etc and they sang this song, giving it a whole new meaning as many had lost their birth families through being gay.
Holly went to 'Nam with Fonda and is doing some remarkable peace work.
I e-mailed her and she wrote back to me - a lovely woman.
I feel the weight of words just now - I looked at the BBC news site the other night and there were 14,000 comments on Gaza awaiting for moderation.
We need peace in every sense of the word.
That's an infectious little germ, well worth incubating.
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