AND NOW  advice for the insignificant

AND NOW advice for the insignificant

A Poem by Thurston
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Prepare to find out

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PREPARE       lie down to look at kites

                        (expansively poised

                        ever ahead of the whooping

                        hobbyist gaping with nets)

                        -- rest assured of gravity--

                       

                        (but shrunk to the giant

                         boy of lumbering worlds

                         slendering away -- remote wish --

                         tugging at his head)

 

 TO FIND         -- solitary yacht --

                         a pure devotion

                         floating deeper than streets

                         through all the quiet

                         pipes

 

                        but paper

                        boats and kites

                        come back like maps

                        travelled tails of print

                        and pert mother-folded sails

                        structures of miracle and faith

                        threatening to unravel

 

                        keep them away with string

                        stay and tensely hold

 OUT               fingers vigorous with news.

© 2010 Thurston


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Thurston
Thurston

Huntly, North Waikato, New Zealand



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I enjoy James K. Baxter, Jon Silkin, Sylvia Plath, to begin with. Want to live forever. Yet to write my best poem, but have been equal runner-up in Commonwealth Poetry Award 1976 for my book Believed .. more..

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