Wednesday, 25 April 2012

Being a Poetic Bastard


At Writers Connect this week organizer Oz brought in a selection of small intriguing ornaments as prompts for a ten minute exercise. This session was- as usual- the morning after the night before, being on a Sunday, and I'd had kind of a weird night out in Manchester involving a group of very drunk Welsh girls. Not as good as it sounds. But anyway, I was feeling kind of melancholy. There was something about this sculpture



that struck a chord with me. I felt like being a poetic bastard.

Unison

She puts a cheek against his face
and brings him to a warm embrace
his view of her is now distorted
nomadic plans are all but thwarted
becoming one, a human boulder
with his hand upon her shoulder
he is there for her to hold
and soon enough, they start to mould
into an almost rock-like feature,
no longer separate, now one creature
his gratitude for having met her
has turned him to an oaken texture
he starts to think of when he met her
and how his life became much better
he plans to live in pure monogamy
alone with her, cast in mahogany.

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