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Danishes

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You imagine that
you can just steal down
some mole-made tunnel,
some Narnian path,
and you think that you’ll
skirt by unscathed
- no lectures after funerals
- no star-fused poetry after midnight calls
- no rare-as-manuscript tears when they tell you that you looked like her
if you just cry to
Artemis, Athena – does it matter which? –
whomsoever takes your fancy,
when the sun becomes a
mariner,

but instead you find
you’ve looped ribbons round yourself –
some rogue moon in orbit –
and fallen into a
forget-me-not
and there it is
- no feeling more callousness than angst
- no stained-glass saints to gaze fixedly upon
- no invincible remote cousins breaking like china cups
myriad-hued
hundreds and thousands
like the leaves torn
from a tree
in a simmering storm,
all similes as lost
as paradise,

and suddenly
the ancients become real,
and there’s Socrates
with hemlock
shaking in hand,
and Hypatia amidst
ungrounded fury personified,
and the marching Macedonians,
marching, marching
through Gedrosian doom,
and there’s the Isis-curl boy
and who knows what
happened to
him?

And there’s you,
pixie-feet over
forget-me-not
edge,
and you flap your
arm-wings
for attention –

sharp visions of
bees in foxgloves
and Beatrix Potter,
childhood remembered
in an older mirror –

until you realise
that ‘you’
is really
I, and that
the birds are
noiselessly
coming
closer
A jumbled mess of angsty thoughts... It's just been one thing after another lately. My dog nearly died (but she's alright now, thank goodness) and now my grandpa is talking about how he won't be around much longer, and I had a dream a few nights ago in which I was stuck in a cage in the middle of a field, with my feet sticking out. I tried to attract the attention of some passers by but they just kept going. Ugh. Still, life goes on. And who am I to complain? Exam tomorrow... and here I am writing poetry. ._.;

[link] My favourite is on the bottom left. :heart: That cheered me up a bit, heh.

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Aristotle323's avatar
"Gedrosian doom"...nice touch. :)