Sample Sunday (22 May 2011)

Sample poem from Kaleidoscope
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We ride in cars

Slow to ride

Our comic days

All drowned in wine

In the stifling heat

We ride in cars

With windows down

Singing to strangers

Who cannot sing

Hold the tune

Against the summer breeze

With the dog’s head bobbing

He laps it up

The speeding cars

And the lingering lights

The ripped out trees

Shouting our sights

We ride in cars

Chase the tyre tracks

From dawn til dusk

We hold our fire back

And we scream and laugh

In the silencing

As the dark draws near

And we pretend to sleep

Keep the fires burning

As the dog nods on

In the piercing light

Of the summer sun


copyright Vickie Johnstone