More than I could ever expect or deserve

Cherry

By shoe

Mon, 17 Jan 2011
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11 comments
 

All the miles, all the dirty drive thorough towns
the greasy roads and soot rimed pavements
all the weeks and months and dreams of rain
and grey, grey, grey days
all the sore eyed nights, the thud of defeat
hammering, trammeling, back-beating my heart
has come to this;

A reticent sun
warming a sleeping cat
the burble of rock doves
the flick of the thrush
and somewhere so close
I can hardly bear to not go
a scattering of light
on a Seconal Ocean

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Comments

Submitted by Beeme on
So beautiful Shoe, I love this! Beeme xx

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Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on
me too - it's fantastic - especially the last few lines. It's spelt seconal as far as i know

 

Submitted by fatboy74 on
Pretty wonderful and very sad.

 

Submitted by seashore on
Melancholy not sad for me but a ovely piece either way. Just off to look up `seconol/seconal'.....(definition of, never mind spelling!).

Submitted by Cavalcader on
new shoe well deserved cherry! full of colour images. What is seconal please Dictionary of mine doesn't show it.Words great a reticent sun warming a sleeping cat nice. julie xx

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on
it's a barbiturate - sleeping pill - a very strong one

 

Submitted by ScoZen on
Hello Shoe. Sad and nice to read. This reminds me of a recent long, long drive back from up North. I was glad to return and look out at my ocean. Kind regards
ScoZen

Submitted by shoe on
Thank you all for your encouraging comments, It gives me heart. Thanks Poncey, I think you can spell it either way, maybe with an 'a' is the English version, so I'll change it.

 

Submitted by MistakenMagic on
'A reticent sun warming a sleeping cat the burble of rock doves the flick of the thrush' - love these lines, Shirley! A poem for the sense, no doubt about that. Well done on the cherry! Magic xxx

 

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on
Shirley - only just come across this. It is beautiful and the lines that Magic quotes, pure magic;-) Congrats on the well deserved cherry;-) Tina

 

Submitted by kheldar on
This is one of those poems that I hope are of the imagination rather than of experience. An excellent piece. :--) xxx

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