Distance stretches
to the horizon,
over the edge
is the distance down.
...
When I missed you
on a fateful day,
and my mental sustenance
was drained with misery,
...
Is that the time?
Has it passed by
so suddenly
without reason or with rhyme?
...
Say we can meet
in the astral place,
then I can travel
deaths dark corridoor
...
In this angry world,
stay close, darlin'.
We are united by words,
with words,
...
Anger threatens
and bursts throught fast.
The swelling breast
stretches the sinews
...
It is a beautiful place.....
this mystery of where you are,
full of golden trees
glistening
...
She could hear the piano
playing as slow
as his seductive fingers.
The lingering sound
...
Death is a lump in the throat.
Acute awareness of the inanimate,
bareness in extreme...
cold, full and frozen.
...
Chickens picking amongst wild flowers.
Undug patches with netting bowers.
Tuberculosis that's running rife.
Sore, scrubbed hands on every wife.
...
I have 2 children and 2 grandchildren.Education - basic.Left school ay 15 to work on a production line. University of life.)
A Humorous Death
Distance stretches
to the horizon,
over the edge
is the distance down.
I am over
Falling slow as a feather.
My past passes me,
painfully.
It is a long way,
the bottom.
In the mortuary of mind
lay my ancestors
arms open and calling.
The dying left in me
will not speed its entirity
towards the inevitable.
>> <<
My ancestors are laughing now.
Applauding joyfully,
glad that I am released
from the restrictions of being.
great work sally. and thank you 4 commenting on my page. you are truly a great woman!
Hi Sally, I chose a poem of yours at random - 1957 - “…kohl-eyed, black lashed Saturday morning spenders” ‘Good God’ I thought …were you there? ’ Straight back to the ‘Riviera’ and ‘Elasona’ coffee bars and the local ‘Plaza’ on Saturday nights. Another couple - ‘Aunt Rose’ you say is kid’s stuff - we were all kids at one time and ‘Seagull’ - how often we fail to notice the things we frequently see. Great work.
Yes the universety of life of which I am one also gd to read your poems. I hav been writing poetry myself for about 20 years untill recently didnt know they were any good. Now I realise and now it flows.
Most Respected Madam, I have posted few poems, if possible please read once my poem bcoz your comments shall be more valuable than my poems with kind regards ramesh rai rkrai100@gmail.com
wow so many poems which is your favourite? ... please read my birthday song..