In response to Andy Townend’s Poetry 101 Rehab.
Uprooted
Rejected
By what you loved
Crushed to the ground
With no resources
No roots to take
In
Tag: Poetry 101 Rehab
Poetry 101 Rehab: Fem
In response to Andy Townend’s Poetry 101 Rehab.
Fem or man
Man or wo-man
All hum-man
All equal
Some more
Some less
Poetry 101 Rehab: Odyssey
In response to Andy Townend’s Poetry 101 Rehab.
Ulysses fares abroad
adventuring
Penelope waits at home
for him
With the quiet heroism
of women
Poetry 101 Rehab: Wrapping
In response to Andy Townend’s Poetry 101 Rehab.
Everyone is wrapped
In covers
Of false faces
For others
To choose
From
Poetry 101 Rehab: Talk
Talk not
Your neighbour could be
Secret Police
Drug Dealer
Child Trafficker
Trust none
In response to Andy Townend’s Poetry 101 Rehab.
Poetry 101 Rehab: Rain
Poetry 101 Rehab: Windows
I carry the tram routes
in my memory
I see the city
from the windows
of trams
The Five and the Nine stop
at the university
But only the Three goes
all the way up
to the cemetery
The crematorium
The terminal
And back
Unless you’re dead
In response to Andy Townend’s Poetry 101 Rehab.
Poetry 101 Rehab: Flora
The florist
with thin white fingers
Binds the bouquet
with a thick black ribbon
Wraps the flowers
in rough brown paper
And hands the dead thing
over the counter
From where I carry it
to adorn the ashes
of the dead
In response to Andy Townend’s Poetry 101 Rehab.
Poetry 101 Rehab: Exposition
There was a Scotsman at EXPO
Who was eating pasta and pesto
But there was a wind
Which lifted the kilt
Of the cheeky Scotsman at EXPO
In response to Andy Townend’s Poetry 101 Rehab.
Poetry 101 Rehab: Reflection
To reflect
Is to dis
connect
The shadow
From the substance
In response to Andy Townend’s Poetry 101 Rehab.
