![]() AND NOW advice for the insignificantA Poem by Thurston![]() Prepare to find out![]() 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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Added on September 24, 2010 Last Updated on September 24, 2010 Author![]() ThurstonHuntly, North Waikato, New ZealandAboutI 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..Writing
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