Monday 20 March 2023

A Poem a Day (569): Echoes


Echoes 

A mound of words
lost in a white shag-pile carpet.
 
A woman runs barefoot through the cool surf
bubbling on the edge of a pristine beach,
toes sinking in. Her prints echo in the sand,
a route for others to follow.
 
Grey gulls twist,
sailing on the backdraft,
voices transported on the wind.
 
The ringbearer scales the mountain,
where wild goats clamber on the diagonal,
mounting invisible steps with ease.
 
A world of opportunity waits below the sun,
its environs inconducive to man.
 
The man peddling just keeps going,
watching a faraway scene on a video screen.
 
Copyright Vickie Johnstone, March 20, 2023


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