ASPECTS OF LOVE
Peter Woodgate
I am sending you a poem
to read in the evening.
Free from the prison of material mediocrity
it will be a peaceful poem,
giving comfort through the night
and a morning full of the memories.
You will look in the mirror
and see each word on your lips,
your limbs caressed,
by its rhythm.
You will sit at a table
surrounded by its warmth
and your breakfast
will taste of its sweetness.
You will open the cupboard
and it will be there,
each window
reflecting its radiance,
the house
echoing with its wonder
and the garden
revealing its beauty.
You will see it in faces
of people on the train,
hear it in thunder,
feel it in rain.
You will laugh
and you will cry,
you will look up at the sky
and shout!
Copyright Peter Woodgate
You sound like a 'happy chappy', had your weetabix? Not sure this has been presented correctly... Tell me if the layout is wrong, I like the words but they don't seem to scan like a poem? The right temperament for the current crisis though.
ReplyDeleteYes Len, it is designed to be read aloud and slowly, hence the full stops and commas. Because it is free verse it doesn't have a natural rhythm so the reader is guided by punctuation. There are a couple of rhyming sequences to give the ending some emphases whilst those lines without either full stop or comma have a natural enjambment.
ReplyDeleteMy goodness Peter. And there was me, a, female Scrooge, thinking that life was all doom and gloom. What with the climate, Covid, Brexit and the oceans clogged with plastic. I obviously have not been looking in the right cupboard!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the explanation Peter..I needed it.I have read it allowed and found its rythmn.
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