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by kvennarad
“Holy stones may break my
..bones but luck’ll not desert
..me; I’ll dance and skylark,
..dit and dot biography on this
..here tablet, this table made of
..virtual stone – indestructible
..print of life, hold up my cup
..to catch your kopek, token,
..broken mark of little worth.”
:
.Kogals make snowmen, winter,
.and wickermen (summer) with
.cantops for eyes and grass for
.beards, detailing earbuds, and
.phones secreted in sidepockets,
.are feared of matches and fire –
.belabour (not burn) them with
.canes filched from farmshops,
.break their legs, leave all to rot.
:
..you have (today) a fleet of
..clouds to shift, that gap in
..the city roofs, the accusing
..old chimneys, sky dishes’
..brittle objections, making
..the job into a brutal chore;
..we urge you to love again,
..but you’ve shot the puppy,
..gone shifting more clouds.
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©Marie Marshall
I follow all advice, thank you for giving it, although my preference is to do it without thinking. Sorry about the puppy, I was aiming at the cloudy mirror.
The management is not responsible for other parties’ poor aim. 😀
To skylark, tr.vb: for someone or something to inexplicably sprout wings & dash about in the sky singing beautifully inviting vegetarian poets to write poems about them.
“Dance and skylark” was an order on board a sailing ship, giving leave to the crew to engage in leisure activities. It comes from the Irish Gaelic “damhsa scealaiocht” – the latter being the word for storytelling, cognate with the Scots Gaelic word ‘sgeulachd’ – because there were so many Irishmen under sail on English ships. Whenever I say to someone “That’s a skylark!” or accuse them of ‘skylarking’, I mean they’re telling a tall story. But I’ll take your definition too, it makes a lot of sense.