I ... entered the poem of life, whose purpose is ... simply to witness the beauties of the world, to discover the many forms that love can take. (Barabara Blackman in 'Glass After Glass')

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28 November 2010

Spaces

I remember, at the resting place of the king,
a thin old man, hunched double, crawling like a spider
and grinning happily. Su explained, cripples were hidden
away from tourist centres, but this was a quiet spot
little visited. He could find a living here, minding the garden.

Even so, it was hard to comprehend that happy face.
‘All his needs are met,’ said my friend. And I looked around
at the old stone walls, the carved seats, the sunlight,
the straggling strands of bougainevillea, and thought:
This is one whose whole life is lived in regenerative spaces.


November PAD Chapbook Challenge 2010: 24
Prompt: a spaces poem
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2 comments:

  1. Shirley Alexander4 December 2010 at 03:58

    Good reading.

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  2. Rosemary Nissen-Wade4 December 2010 at 09:59

    Thank you, dear Shirley! (It is much improved by the deletion of two easrlier verses it once had, at the suggestion of poet/friend Jennie Fraine, who realised that the third verse was really the whole poem.)

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