DUSTY POET
DUSTY POET
Dust before donkey doomed
a wicked whirlwind
grains of wisdom wrinkle
sand webs
dust devitalise land
here there everywhere nowhere
in eyes, on kitchen table
parched unfed lips
a single tear rolling
fell
dry gin in glass whimper
for verbs, adjectives, metaphors
a rake on untended farm stood patient
soft sobbing sorrel soil insipid
debts piled manic manure
his scalp itched his wordy craft crumbling
sonnets, verses, vignettes
sottoed louder than waiting shrubs
white hair falling, skin flaked
he failed to vision journal
an ode to rip from protruding ribs
too much unsaid
torrents tortured gestate
an epic waiting to birth
cannot speak nor write
cannot read nor recite
dusty throat bone dry doleful
faraway in
another land, another room
in her fist tight
his voice she secretly held
left his heart and
poems on dilapidated shelf parcelled
with cracked crockery
a scribble on a sheet of toilet paper
he flushed away with dried parsley
hens cackled unfed
fishmoths party Victorian linen
dust on books, pamphlets, photographs
letters speaking to women
dead
Pablo Neruda winked from a harbour
along with broken spectacles
alliteration absent without leave
poetry unspoken
fell like beads from
unwritten noose around one tear neck
an escape beckoning
where to
where from
a one-eyed pond
with geese watched
their dusty poet with his wreaths
of unraveled poetry writhing
water lilies fading
dragonflies floating
with dust
Copyright © Ghairo Daniels | Year Posted 2025
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