Tuesday, 18 July 2023

A Poem a Day (595): Drift

 
It's almost too hot to write... 


Drift 

Pure energy drifts, blazes in colours hewn from glass,
reflections cut in fleeting, glints of sunblast strewn,
wild gold dust ever-a-move as if stillness were a curse.
 
There is rebirth in the flowing, overreaching, the arch,
the way you just won’t sit tight in your allocated box.
These sparks defy the lines and lines of etched steel.
 
You watch eyes blink out the bleak darkness of the earth,
this glint amid starbright, a crossing of the gods of old,
grey-bearded and worn. Their fables wander down the ages,
and ourselves are but light years scattered upon thinnest air,
set adrift among the distant echoes left by deft travelling stars.   

Copyright Vickie Johnstone, July 18, 2023


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