on 18/2/02 2:40 pm, Bob Cooper at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Oh, my triolet comment was meant as a smile - perhaps I should've added
> LOL... (I've just read it and guess it might look very blunt!)
> Anyways, what's following is for C & C....
>
Oh I like this one, Bob, it was worth waiting a bit longer for. Back to the
real poetry now! You can often see the growing and reducing shape in terms
of line lengths when a poem's argument has come out right.
I think you mean prise for the chocolates
LOL Sally ee
>
> The Instant
>
> This may not always be so – and so I say
> that if your fingers should prize chocolates
> from other boxes in evenings watching tv films
> and it’s some other body that breathes its slowness
> in a different favourite t shirt, and your sweet hair
> falls in such a silence as he moves slightly,
> stretching his slippered foot till it touches
> your instep, your ankle, your calf,
>
> and if this should be so, and I imagine it all again,
> will only I be the one who listens intently
> as streetlights strengthen the dark
> and hear a bird singing fiercely
> as it would in a foreign land?
>
> Bob
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