Best Fortieth Poems

Friends and family have come together on this very special day,
To join in a celebration of love that has forever stayed!
Forty years ago, Danny took Opal's hand into his,
	And made a commitment to in love to forever be true,
A ceremoney was held in front of...

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Translation of Eric Mottram’s “Fortieth Legal” by T. Wignesan

(From: The Legal Poems. Colne: Pub. by Robert Bank at the Arrowspire Press, 1985, 39p.
Here’s an extract from the blurb by Allen Fisher, dated December 1985:

“They record a cultural malaise where unjust, intolerant and exploitative power confronts...

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Starting with first I climbed
Initial steps followed all blind

Quicker I paced to find
Fun and Frolic to bind

Growing in  body and mind 
Longing Life’s purpose, I grind

Forty you turn this kind 
Party now leaving all behind...

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Ageless woman lies alone.
Builds her own fires
amid perfumed air,
blending inside warmth
with outside chill.

Pretty things surround
a rarely-shared bed.
Hoping for a dream-filled sleep,
she stares into flames
then the crystal stars.

Loneliness drops gently
to a cold pillow, as
her skin burns hot, while
facing long-held beliefs
turned inside out
by a man-child knowing 
so...

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