Brian Strand Poet Bio

R Is For Retrospective

R is for RETROSPECTIVE
A poem is never merely still born,
it has its creator's eyes,ears and nose
Yet,unique it lives  a life of its own
independent,well able to stand alone

On others it can,influence,affect
energise,direct or initiate
A response,unforseen and immediate
or lie dormant,yet not dead,but waiting

Watered by another's mutual bond
resurrected,to live again,again

I recite and read aloud,
wander, lonely as a cloud,
then emulate and create
as memory stimulates

Swim against poetry's tide
therein,an enigma hide,
perhaps,a step too far,with
Tennyson,crossing the bar

I dream on Will's sonnet verse,
figuratively,sweet and terse,
lazing life away,with songs
compared to a summer's day

To conjure an opening line
ever,remembered,as mine.


Through this personal  lens I think,then write
perspective's gaze alters,from night to night,
as blotting paper,absorbs impressions
of poetry's learned and unlearned lessons


My anthology,my journey's log book
from mainstream or the back lanes I took,
An emphasis upon a favoured form
those endeavours which I,on reflection mourn

I change,I alter or perhaps stand still
in retrospective of a fogotten will,
And yet,driven by this creative itch,
each day,I,this word tapestry must stitch

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