Is my poetic brain
Words incoherent
Flow like flat champagne.
With stony grace
I bear this curse
Tense my face
And fashion verse.
I bear this curse
Tense my face
And fashion verse.
Words are lean
My will almost gone
Strong caffeine
Helps me soldier on.
My will almost gone
Strong caffeine
Helps me soldier on.
But the reader’s grief
Spills with my twaddle
Blessed relief
Is in the empty bottle.
Spills with my twaddle
Blessed relief
Is in the empty bottle.
Scarlett is honoured. Eminently more readable than many of my teenaged angst-ridden attempts. (Tho I do have a copy of a very jaunty Ode to Weed penned around that time!)
ReplyDeleteI would be honoured to read Ode to Weed. Seriously, do you have it still? I wrote an ode once when I was working at an aged care home in England. It was called Ode to the Commode (didn't go down well with my boss). Now I get it - starting to see how the subjects of poets' poems are inextricably linked to their lives! Poetry might not be so bad after all.
ReplyDeleteI like poetry that has a story the man from Snowy River, Clancy of the Overflow, The Highway man but don't get the airy fairy ones Ms Scarlett the ode to weed sounds very interesting :)
ReplyDeleteI like poetry that has a story the man from Snowy River, Clancy of the Overflow, The Highway man but don't get the airy fairy ones Ms Scarlett the ode to weed sounds very interesting :)
ReplyDeleteI'm with you, Tess. Like opera, classical music and dance, I don't get the airy fairy ones, either. Actually, limericks are more up my alley. I only wrote this twaddle because Miss Scarlett suggested it. It almost drove me mad, the writing of it.
ReplyDeleteThere once was a poet called Cate
ReplyDeleteShe hasn’t been writing of late
She can’t stand the babble
Such frolicsome gabble
How doth that stuff conjugate?
I like limericks too! OK, and classical music & dance.
Brilliant! Awesome! No one has ever written a poem for me. And a limerick; my absolute favourite! Mwa. xx
ReplyDeletePS Are you serious about classical music and dance? How does Pink fit in there?
Yes, serious. I'm eclectic. Like being a trustworthy, loyal person whilst having a rather, erm...chequered past. Like loving my granny whilst getting shitfaced and jumping from billboards...They call me the Dark Angel....Joan Baez meets AC/DC...
ReplyDeleteHell, I should check this blog more often. Someone's hacked Scarlett's account. Will let her know now!
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