Your House Creaks

By queen beatle

Wed, 23 Dec 2020

1 comments

Your house creaks

As it settles

On the seabed

Like a petal

Tickle slippers

In the larder

Cough a poppy

Piggy parlour

Clicking lock

Plucking rhythms

Out of feathers

Shake a stirrup

Tighten tethers

Batten hatches

Ticky tocky

Lick a lolly

Then stop.

Permalink Submitted by Nolan on Wed, 2020-12-23 19:15

Dylan Thomas always used the first line of a poem for the title also. Individual poets always have some personal peculiarity.

This one reminds very much of your early poems & very nice and I like the conclusion especially. Stop!