Bordeaux Bay

Bordeaux Bay
Bordeaux Bay by Guernsey-based artist Tony Taylor

Friday, 20 October 2017

BRIDGING THE GAP?

This poem, if indeed it is a poem, came about as a result of an exercise to establish whether I could merge two poems into one and still produce a coherent whole. Whether it works or not remains to be seen. You, the reader, must be the judge of that.
It first appeared in my Strange Journey collection, published in 2012.

PARIS

we meet on a sunlit bridge                      in an ancient city in spring
and our shadows merge                              we meet like eager lovers
inhaling sweetness                                                your cool skin scent
apple blossom                                                              drenches my lips
the river                                                                                         the light
sings                                                                                                     sings


wings                                                                                                wishes 
or  prayers                                                                                   unspoken
sweep overhead                                                             escape like birds
        we stand like statues                                        our lips eyes fingertips          
our vows now set in stone                        connect to become but one 
sky a purple mass of starlings          stretching beyond and beyond

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2 comments:

  1. John Buchanan20 October 2017 at 12:31

    Wow, yes this works and I think it works very well indeed. I liked the fact that it can be read in so many ways and still deliver the message.

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  2. Richard Fleming20 October 2017 at 17:08

    Thanks, John. Good to have the thumbs up from a fellow writer.

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