To Every Picture a Story

Cherry

By Silver Spun Sand

Wed, 19 Aug 2015
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9 comments
 
He sits and studies
the clientele – bums
a cigarette from the barman.
 
A couple of roughnecks
make love to their pints –
abandon darts for the night.
 
A moth – orange and brown
studies him, studying them,
and also the light, draws each
to this place.
 
A different bar –
a different evening;
the same moth – mesmerised
by a single flame.
 
He sits
slumped in his chair
since yet another
one too many.
 
The candle weeps wax;
flickers, so dies.
 
Fancies himself an artist –
a piss-artist more like;
his – the art of the unmade bed
aeons before Tracey Emin.
 
At chucking out time
dons his leathers...
stumbles to his bike
 
he and the moth, both,
reclaim their freedom
fly free...in starry, 
starry skies.
Certificate 12
Poem
Silver Spun Sand Poems
Spiritual

Comments

Submitted by Bee on

Hauntingly written, which by the end I understood why.

Bee

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

My thanks to you, dear Bee...intuitive, as ever.

Tina

 

Submitted by Weefatfella on

Great imagery here. You paint the scene well: The protagonist and the moth both, uncontrollably drawn to these places. They escape in the early morning riding off into the still starlight. Loved it. Thank you SSS for sharing.

Weefatfella. 

I might not like what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

...and so do you, Wff...paint pictures with your words, and I am appreciative of thatsmiley

Many thanks, and I hope Thursday treats you well.

SSS

 

Submitted by RML on

Really enjoyed this. Though I have to admit, at first the whole thing kind of went over my head, but after reading Weefatfella's comment I re-read the poem and loved it even more. Nice work.

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

My thanks to you for popping by, RML, and sharing your thoughts.  Good of you too, to stick with it, as they say, and I'm glad it paid off.

Tinasmiley

 

Submitted by hoalarg1 on

I enjoyed this Silver-Spun Sand. Particularly I enjoyed the line, 

'Make love to their pints.' Think I did this once.

 

Submitted by Silver Spun Sand on

Cheers, hoalargsmiley

 

Submitted by loquaciousicity on

Captivating... relentless... splendid!!