Hi Bob,
Part of me wants to say, hey Bob, they're only lumps of stone! it reminds me
too of 'the characters in story books climb out of their books and play in
the nursery' - sort of stone Bagpuss. I've never been able to take statues
9as opposed to sculptures) very seriously, not in Britain anyway. Perhaps
they're different in Prague?

bw
SallyE 


on 8/8/04 12:08 pm, Bob Cooper at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Here's one for some C & C:
> 
> The Statues Of Prague
> 
> They stretch and yawn, clamber down from plinths,
> from lintels, canopies, and balustrades,
> to crowd into some seldom visited square
> where they murmur in their ancient languages
> of what they’ve seen since the last time
> they gathered like this. Expressionless faces
> begin to smile, some give stone cracking laughs
> at the follies of people, their fickle moods,
> the arguments, quiet confessions of love,
> while others dance slowly or sit and play cards
> until dawn pinks the sky when they sigh, return
> and hoist themselves heavily to where they’re seen
> so high above us with looks on their faces
> we can never reach, so single minded, so alone.
> 
> 
> 
> Bob Cooper
> 
> (who hasn't got a cow in there anywhere!)
> 
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