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Because Of The Rhymes
BECAUSE OF THE RHYMES
Like the Doctor says,
“Poetry, physics, same thing.”
Who’m I to argue?
Wedded To Verse
WEDDED TO VERSE
For better or for worse
A poet likes to lift
A stone to see what is
Going on under there
Twilight’s Last Gleaming
TWILIGHT’S LAST GLEAMING
Let us stroll now this empty orchard
Gone out of season and out of time
Grasp poetry, physics, the perfect rhyme*
To toast the Doctor’s magic pilchard†
A heavenly couple’s life is hard
S’not all apples, there’s sweat and grime
And groping in the dark and slime
With nothing sure left behind to guard
Cast out of the bright garden and left alone
Adam’s apple crumbles leaving merely bone
Always was a throaty tickle mainly subliminal
The doctor’s bobs in uttering the word “terminal”
In God they trust, in palliative they clutch
And this and that and so and such
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* … our favourite Time Lord who had been teaching everything from poetry to physics – “they’re the same thing, same rhymes” …
† “Once, long ago, a fisherman caught a magic haddock. The haddock offered him three wishes in return for its life. The fisherman said, “I’d like for my son to come home from the war. And a hundred pieces of gold.” The problem is, the magic haddock, like robots, don’t think like people. The fisherman’s son came home from the war, in a coffin. And the king sent a hundred gold pieces in recognition of his heroic death. The fisherman had one wish left. What do you think he wished for? Some people say he should have wished for an infinite series of wishes, but if your city proves anything, it is that granting all your wishes is not a good idea. […] In fact, the fisherman wished he hadn’t wished the first two wishes.”
– The Doctor.
https://www.tvfanatic.com/quotes/once-long-ago-a-fisherman-caught-a-magic-haddock-the-haddock-off/
For Even Poets Pass On (A Four By Six)
FOR EVEN POETS PASS ON
Time to bid you fare well.
Should I say “Rest in peace”?
No, for that’s not your style.
“Wrestle on and create!”
Amicus Curiae
AMICUS CURIAE
I am happy
To bring you
To the window
But not to tell you
What you should see
Beyond the glass
Calliope’s Children
CALLIOPE’S CHILDREN
You stoke and provoke
Open up countless chasms
Too vast to orate
Conjuring such wild answers
Few are they who dare reply
Another
ANOTHER
Another page then
Savaged, ravaged
No pristine virgin
No fallow field
Tell me for why
Is it just rattling
The bars of the cage
Of this our language
Busy busy restraining
Our breathless words
For after all, for after all
Who was it, who was it
Put the me in meaning
Or the em in poem?
Too Paranoid (Republished)
TOO PARANOID
He started whispering to me one night
From the wall beside my bed
Said he needed my help
That the secret police
Were controlling his thoughts
With microwave radiation
So that he wrote poems
Which they could use if they ever needed
Evidence of his insanity
And this is one of them
Which he was too paranoid to write down
So he got me to do it for him
After all, he says
I live in a democracy
And it’s quite safe here
Stuck In A Rut (A Four By Six)
STUCK IN A RUT
Glued your appealing face
To an ancient photo
Whose subject retorted
“This is not a poem.”
The Mystery Of Creation
THE MYSTERY OF CREATION
Collect the random.
Act! Stream fresh fiction!
The key subsumes the writer.
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This is a response to a writing prompt.
