recoil

Gold cherry
Poem of the week
Pick of the Month

By sid

Wed, 03 Feb 2016
  • 6548 reads
13 comments
 

You said

Everybody told me to avoid you

you're too unstable for me.

I can turn myself inside out

if that's what you want

but I'll still be lost at sea

and the scent of blood attracts sharks.

I am my own albatross. Not yours.

Throw me overboard

if that's what you want.

I'll gulp saltwater gratefully.

And when they drag me in

bloated and green

with the rest of the catch

Dumped on the deck

they're trapped

but I'm free.

Certificate U
Poem

Comments

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

Very pleased to see something new from you on ABC sid. Wonderful foreboding imagery ending in that last triumphant line. Brilliant.

 

Submitted by VeraClark on

I love this, Sid. Captures all the strangeness of the species.

 

Submitted by Bee on

A sense of rebellion, and yes, triumph, as insert has said, at the end, but retaining the squirminess of the creature, and indignity of one / any so badly used. I thought it was wonderful. 

Bee

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Full of the sense of power to be oneself, even when turned inside out.  Full of defiance and strength.

Submitted by sid on

Thanks for commenting everyone, and thanks Eds for the cherries. I wrote this at a poetry workshop with Helen Mort last night; it was the first thing I'd written in bloody ages so I was very happy!

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

A very well deserved golden cherry makes this poem our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day!

Get a fantastic reading recommendation everyday and Sid, write more soon!

 

Picture Credit:David Patte/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

 

Submitted by sid on

Aaaaaaaaah thank you!

 

Submitted by tcook on

I like this a lot - you choose an image and ride with it to the end. Great stuff. More please if you can fit it in between the studies.

 

Submitted by celticman on

I too am my own albatross. 

 

Submitted by london_calling79 on

'I can turn myself inside out'

Devastatingly simple. 

 

Submitted by sid on

Bloody hell when did this get poem of the week?! Thanks very much whoever did that. And thanks for reading and commenting everyone

 

Submitted by torscot on

Hello sid.

As insert has already said     "...Very pleased to see something new from you on ABC..."

I enjoyed this fishy tale, but, where have all your other tales gone to "...Peel and Chop " etc ?

Regards

torscot

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

This is our Poem of the Month - congratulations!