Tuesday, 11 April 2023

A Poem a Day (576): Gold

 A poem I wrote on Saturday, and forgot to post ! Happy Tuesday, guys!


Gold

 

Alice says she knows your brother,

Alice says she knows Everyman.

Once, the streets were paved with gold,

but now we wade through mustard.

There is a power play they hold up high,

the ministry of something chilly,

and down here the bells have yet to toll,

to reveal what we already know.

 

It takes a while to take a picture.

You’ve got to get the focus right,

the angle, disintegrate the blur,

no shake; the snake, a second skin,

the in-between of the invisible view.

Here we go again, seeing it anew,

the past, the future, present tense,

just redrawn, resketched, tangible.

 

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, April 8, 2023

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