Poems with pictures
Poems with pictures
49 going on 50
"The automatic time delay feature gives the operator about 20 seconds in which to move into the photo"
Too much grey immensity
Of sky, l'd say,
Weighing down shoulders
And cutting off
Our nether parts ......
Well, what did you expect
Given we all had wanted
To be in the frame
After thirty years away?
This need, itself,
Had caught us unawares
No time to pose
Formally
To show how high we'd climbed
Up the valley.
A lying camera
Had fixed essentially
What we hadn't seen.
That staring
Straight into infinity
Expectantly, it seems, betrayed
Relief at where we'd reached
Some firmness and resolve
And just a hint of
A bewilderment
At what might happen next.
Or maybe not.
At least we knew
From looking at the map
That soon, the path would peter out,
That it was time to go back down
The way we'd come,
To reach our starting point.
Mull, July,1998