Hello Christina,
This I like very much. And what makes it so successful for me is:
1. the combination of sounds, the music of the words
2. the fact that it takes a light subject and handles it with such panache. Poetry can be serious, but it doesnīt have to be
3. itīs a poem addressed to a logo. I believe Iīve picked up somewhere that poets arenīt really supposed to direct their musings ( actually they arenīt supposed to muse, either; on pain of death, I understand, on some creative writing courses) toward inanimate objects. Not since Keats, at least. All the more reason to do precisely that. Bring back the apostrophe, I say.
Yes, itīs a lot of fun.
Best wishes, Mike
--- Alkuperäinen viesti ---
Logo
O, yellow logo on a blue bin,
who drew you? Who sketched, pounced
and pricked your template, cut,
stuck and sprayed you? Who chose the colour
that glows butter bowls on oceans,
and waited ten hours for you to dry?
Was it quick buck slick kid who knows
grey city psyche, how to sustain
seaside illusions in wintry gloom?
Or slow, old artist, down on her luck,
sick of baked beans, grilled fish fingers,
tired of art, needing a break
until you came unformed to turn
into the sun in a clear sky?
christina fletcher
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