(Sand Promises)
That holiday romance I still recall.
I close my eyes and remember it all.
And though so many years have passed since then,
Still, in my dreams, I relive it again.
We initialled a love heart in the sand
And built a sand castle so tall and grand.
We decided we’d live in it one day,
Then watched as the waves washed our dreams away
We exchanged addresses before we left.
But it fizzled out and left me bereft.
Although we had promised to stay in touch,
The distance between us had proved too much
I still recall how we walked hand-in-hand,
And those promises made, there in the sand
Categories:
initialled, romance,
Form: Sonnet
E E Cummings initialled for Edward Eselm
originality known throughout the poetic realm
In the vertical not horizontal
whose lower case was so unusual
Categories:
initialled, people, poetry,
Form: Clerihew
Ludwig Leichart
This perplexing country,
(such an under statement),
where rivers run upside down,
marbles are strewn by the Devil
and Songlines
etched in memory are
sung by those few who know.
Seeking Victoria,
the blazed trees could not help,
the Prussian collapsed, looking at the blue.
Initialled stunted trees showed the way,
signposts to oblivion,
while the heat,
always the heat,
in a furnace of shadeless infinity
dessicates his body.
What use the blaze?
He cannot walk or crawl,
only a palanquin borne by flies,
Oh the flies,
will carry him there
until their wings melt.
He came from the south
humming tunes from a Baroque choir
to reach the Arafura sea,
where Cornish stone -masons build chimneys
to ward of the chill (sarcastic laugh).
and a Tamarind tree guards the entrance.
The red coated soldiers have left
And he, Ludwig had vanished.
A fanfare blasts, .
Is that an angel holding Brown’s hand
up there on top of a nunatak of the desert,
the quavers and semi-quavers merging
in an anthem of despair?
Categories:
initialled, endurance,
Form: Free verse