Shall I be Mother? (Poetry Monthly)

Gold cherry
Poem of the week

By Philip Sidney

Sun, 08 May 2016
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12 comments
 

Read tea leaves

spilt across a china blue sky,

shrieking like starlings,

shifting their 

shape

 

before

you can decipher

their under-the-weather-forecast,

which may be worse than today,

so you may as well go all out.

 

Barley wine and Breakers,

bingo and babies

a bus ride away from

a game called grown-ups,

played with a stranger.

 

Let loose the unowned life

to sniff out, in its animal way,

that flash of white light

once seen at the edge of death,

beyond the sulphur flare.

 

Suck in smoke

impregnated with peppermint,

for the night will end with lips

pressed against warm tarmac

in an exchange of secrets.

Certificate 12
Poetry Monthly

Comments

Submitted by VeraClark on

This is is beautifully mystical.I love the starling image and the dislocated sense of observing adulthood.

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thank you so much, Vera!  It's such a liberating theme. 

Submitted by jeand on

Hi Helen

I love your imagery in this. Very powerful poem.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thank you Jean!  So glad you like it.  

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Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Wow!  I've been so busy I missed being picked!  How lovely!  The gold looks especially good next to the little cup and saucer. :)

Submitted by Linda Wigzell Cress on

I've read this several times now. A great poem, so much to find in it.

Linda

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thank you Linda :)

Submitted by jolono on

Fabulous! Thats why it's our Poem Of The Week!

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

What a lovely surprise to cheer up a rather grim weekend!  Thank you so much for PoW! smiley

Submitted by celticman on

an unowned life' lovely and wise. 

 

Submitted by Philip Sidney on

Thanks celticman :)