Love it, Bob. I always say, every day is poetry day for me!
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SallyE
on 6/10/02 10:29 pm, Bob Cooper at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Some media people in the UK have been saying today's the start of National
> Poetry Week! That was news to me... But it's National Poetry day on
> Thursday. Maybe this occasional piece is to help be grin and bear it:
> C & C welcome:
>
>
> Waiting For The Nunthorpe Bus On National Poetry Day
>
> After reading the graffiti again
> I watch the moon rise, gather light, travel,
> and the wind bites deep as I shiver, cough,
> while stood at the stop where it should turn up,
> but it doesn’t. A phone-box phone rings. Rain
> I’d seen over Ragworth will soon fall here.
> And beyond long lawns, neat rooms like photos
> I’d glimpsed in magazines at the dentists
> gleam as people watch TV, eat their teas
> of Safeway fruitfulness. Lorries clatter
> making fallen leaves rise, swirl like vultures,
> then return to the earth. How I long for
> the right word at the front, doors opening,
> the bright space, somewhere to sit near the back.
>
>
> Bob Cooper
>
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