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Small Things |
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Pete_W Member Posts 185 Scotland (UK) |
Small Things Three gulls, one crying. Three swifts, one crow, the silent sky, filled with white cloud currents, wind thinned swirls and horses manes. Distant dogs, sun behind the pear tree near the longest day, a blackbird, in a neighbour’s garden. Circling gull, three times crying, an ant on garden stones seeks passage. A mouse-brown swift lies on the grass, wings outstretched, gliding on forever. December 2015 |
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jjote Senior Member
since 2002-12-25
Posts 1088Ontario, Canada |
small is beautiful, and if one stops to notice them, they are so precious - life's pleasures all for the taking, for free! Lovely one, this piece..I like best the swift with wings outstretched, gliding forever, |
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Cari Member Posts 411 Englnand |
Your poem illustrates that a poet has to be a keen observer, from both small and the large before he/she can turn even the mundane into poetry. The young Kipling spent many hours in the company of the ordinary British soldier in India, unheard of in the 1880s. But it gave him the knowledge to be the first to give the illiterate and semi illiterate a voice. Imagine that happening in the closed world of Victorian society, even today the collection of Barrack Room Ballads is judged to be slightly racist. What do you expect, the truth to be sanitised for those so easily offended ears? Well I expect some do. Interesting poem. Cari. [This message has been edited by Cari (05-17-2016 11:10 AM).] |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I understand this poem, Pete. Over many years I have found myself more and more noticing the "small" creatures in our world. I am so absurd about how I think of them I won't even step on an aunt bed. I'm no fanatic about it, and if they build their home too close to me I have no problem getting rid of it. But yeah, the small one are fascinating and part of it all. ~ If they give you ruled paper, write sideways. ~ |
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