Keith Bickerstaffe Poet Verse

Auf Wiedersehen

A shaft of sunlight
cleaves their reveries,
and the spell evaporates,
their fate is sealed,
their goose is cooked!

Morning-mouthed,
bedraggled, the reality of day 
makes for a rude awakening
and reluctantly they say 
auf wiedersehen.

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Raul Moreno March 27, 2009 at 11:40 PM I laughed with Their goose is cooked...Raul

Barbara Gorelick March 24, 2009 at 4:44 PM This is wonderful from start to finish. I appreciate the bit of humor(goose is cooked!) wich is othersise deep and speaks of the human condition...BG

Hgarvey Daniel Esquire March 24, 2009 at 9:51 AM Dear Keith, The more I read YOU the hungrier I become for YOUR POETIC fulfillment ALWAYS ...HG

L'Nass Shango March 24, 2009 at 7:27 AM There is poem on poetry.com by david smalling called Dambu Lui Gaf, it joins with this for pure excellence of depth and vision. Thanks for defending the miseducation of the negroes, I just do what muse has enslaved me to do. Love, your constant friend