Running
Off
And finding ideas spinning
Away
Past tightly packed Geraniums
With
No sign of stopping for breath
You
Cannot pull those threads together
Can't
Find the Coherency
You
See its lost in the blue ninety nines
See
I'm
I'm
Splitting apart
Nothing left now but Chrysanthemums
A.J. Ponder
The tricky thing about this poem is that it's really three poems in one depending on how you read it, and of course (at least for rabid fans like me) this is in part a (very strange) homage to A A Milne's The Dormouse and the Doctor, which can be found here at http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/A.A._Milne/14279 although I find myself that I'd prefer to wait until the official copyright is over. That's why I have the books :).
And don't forget to check out the Tuesday Poem -'Tuesday': an unfolding communal poem for a birthday
Very clever.:)
ReplyDeleteNice! I've always loved the Dormouse & the Doctor.
ReplyDeleteVery nice indeedy Alicie. I love the breathlessness of it. And the ending! And the homage. The whole deal. Bravo.
ReplyDeleteThanks Helen :)
ReplyDeleteCheers Janis, I know - isn't "the Dormouse and the Doctor" just so delightful? - I can hardly hear "99" without wanting to quote from it.
ReplyDeleteMary - that's such a lovely comment - breathless. Thank you.
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