Looking

Cherry

By Ewan

Wed, 13 Mar 2024
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5 comments
 

We look down,
like stars,
like gods,
like planets
named for gods,
with goddesses
for satellites.

We look down,
who looks up?

They look up,
the fools,
the faithful,
like fish,
stargazey-
pie-eyed drunk
with religion.

Who looks around?
Backward?
Forward?
Away?

Certificate U
Poem
Not Quite Good Enough
Miscellaneous

Comments

Submitted by D G Moody on

I don't know why, but this conjours for me the "Eyeballs in the Sky", from the Perishers cartoon strip.

Dougie Moody

Submitted by celticman on

backward is my thing. nostalgia and stuff I can't quite grasp. 

 

Submitted by Turlough on

Who looks around? A dry-eyed punk might.

Turlough

Submitted by Nolan on

Why would one want look around, is it in a strange place, or dazed, in confusion? What do you have against looking up? Funny it sounds like "lock up". Getting locked up for looking up.

Lot was warned they were not to look back on escaping, and when they were fleeing his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt. And Jesus said, no man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God. Sounds best to look in front of you, say like you are driving a motorcar or steering a boat.

“Two men look through the same bars, one sees the mud, the other the stars.”

I find the story cynical and not constructive, although admittedly is a very well written poem.

See you & Nolan

 

Submitted by Ewan on

 by your own lights. Your beliefs are your own and you are entitled to them, just as you are entitled to your opinion on whatever is posted on this site.

I consider the other cheek turned.

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