THE LONELY WANDERER (I.P.)

Cherry

By Linda Wigzell Cress

Sun, 09 Mar 2014
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I wander, aimless, through the crowd

All hustling, bustling, never still

Through London streets beneath a shroud

Of mist and dust, to Tower Hill,

Where lovers stroll beneath the trees –

While I’m alone, and ill at ease

 

Where is the man who once was mine?

Was it me forced him to stray?

Or was our love in slow decline

And made him want to go away?

I let him go; I missed my chance

He left me without backward glance.

 

And still I miss him every day

And wonder if he thinks of me.

I know I can’t go on this way

In such despair, and misery.

My hot tears fall, I am distraught -

The river is my only thought.

 

Then from the corner of my eye

A flash of gold invades my mood;

A bright embankment quite nearby

Where once my man and I had stood.

My heart with joy and new hope fills

As I behold the daffodils!

 

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Submitted by misskelizabeth on

Beautiful poem Linda, I feel like I can relate to this in a certain way. as for the daffodils, what a lovely flower of spring! Kate

 

Submitted by Ray Schaufeld on

Nice revisit. I once had the Wordsworth daff experience with a grassy dip of wild pinky-purply lupins. I was on the top deck of a bus, blank-minded, passively being transported round the edges of Edinburgh to a furniture warehouse and 'all at once!' 'And now my heart with pleasure fills..'         Elsie

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Thanks Katie.  Daffodils are so bright, always a cheerful sight.  I love the Wordsworth poem and always read it several times in Spring.

Linda

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Hi Elsie.  Pink purply lupins sound great.  One of my favourite flowers, so ancient and mysterious looking, and so many colours nowadays. Wonderful what flowers can do for the spirit. Thanks for reading.

Linda

Submitted by luigi_pagano on

This flowing poem conveys your love for Wordsworth and I am sure it would have been worthy of his approbation. Nicely penned.

Luigi.

 

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Thanks Luigi.  Yes, Wordsworth is a rhymer par excellence!

Linda

Submitted by Rhiannonw on

A lovely crafted and inspiring poem, Linda. I especially also like the first stanza with the description of the bustling crowd and the happy couples compared to the speaker's loneliness.

I did wonder in the 3rd stanza, 3rd line, whether you really had wanted to put both the 'And' and the 'I' at the beginning. It did seem to me that either could be omitted, and the rhythm/flow seemed easier?? Rhiannon

 

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Thanks Rhiannon.  I did wonder about that line you mention, and will take your advice.

Linda

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

very nice interpretation of the IP Linda - well done

 

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Oh thank you ipf - I really enjoyed doing this one.  I appreciate your commenting.

Linda

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Thanks Editor for the cherries, much appreciated.

Linda

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Linda

Lovely poem - full of sadness, made somewhat better by the spot of beauty.

Jean

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Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Hi Jean.  Why does poetry lend itself so easily to sadness, when the world is full of beauty too? Thanks for commenting.

Linda

Submitted by Denzella on

Hi Linda,

Loved this poem it  had so many different elements to it.   The sadness of rejection and the longing for a lost love bringing thoughts of suicide but then spring announces its arrival with the daffodils and with them comes hope and all tied up with expert rhyming.

Moya

 

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Thanks Moya, I am glad you enjoyed the theme, and the rhyming! Hope all's well with you, and you are enjoying the Daffs as much as I am on this sunny day.

Linda

Submitted by skinner_jennifer on

I so enjoyed reading this poem Linda.  A very clever take on the IP.

By the way,  congrats on the well deserved cherries.

Jenny.

 

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Thanks Jenny. 'Daffodiils' is just the very essence of Spring, I think.

Linda

Submitted by The royster on

The beauty of spring. New life after months of gloom. Enough to make ones heart jump with joy. 

I love the way you started this LInda. Wordsworth in modern times. If you ever get the chance to visit his cottage, do so. Only a poet could live there. Beautiful!   More well deserved Lillte Red things.  Royx 

 

Submitted by Frances Macaula... on

Cherries also remind me of Spring, so you win both ways!

Have to say though, the whole poem (for me) is in the first stanza which because it is so strong, could easily stand alone.

Well done!

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Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Hi Roy, glad you liked this, Spring has definitely sprung, and clocks forward Sunday (not such good news). I'll put Wordsworth on my visiting list.

Linda

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

Hi Frances, I am glad you liked it.  You are right about the first stanza, I did consider stopping there but was enjoying the exercise and wanted to go on telling a story.  Thanks very much for commenting.

Linda