TheBanyanTree: New arrival

[John Bailey]

Thursday April 3, 2003

NEW ARRIVAL


I made a poem. Not a great poem. Not even a very good poem. But, after the 
long dark months of the interregnum, the first new poem in a new house 
deserves some small recognition on its arrival.  Perhaps a five gun salute. 
Or four-and-a-half.


CHOOSING

In the pearl-shaped light
at the far edge of the day
bats sweep, tumble and turn,
greet the stars, aerobatically,

and, beside the window, a TV
whispers glitter-bright commercial promise,
offers Jesus for nine ninety-nine.
I shall stay with the bats.


John Bailey
Carmarthenshire, April 2003




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John Bailey   Carmarthenshire, Wales
journal of a writing man
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