Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Spring or - I should be sweeping the floor now

Inspired by the word Spring - as a people's republic of bus monday poem - otherwise known as the scooter.... I have written the following


Earthy

Ground tilts, warms towards life
Locked away in homes the Ordinarys
See new telly schedules
The arrival of the Oscars

Walkers see excitable shoots
Animals are squelching out of older bigger animals
And getting licked and loved and discarded
Vets elbow deep rooting for hooves or heads
Thinking of their tea, the summer holidays,
the Oscars
Shiny tiny people taking tiny shiny people home

In school the frogspawn arrives in tanks
Boys wait in gleeful horror for brothers to awake
and eat each other
the world writhes with excitement of the new
stuff from ash reborn into
the tilted landscape
shiny

6 comments:

Elisabeth said...

What a wonderful comment on spring and new life. Your words positively burst out like a new born.

Titus said...

Ooh, the rest has done you good! Loved it.

This line probably my favourite:

Animals are squelching out of older bigger animals

Rachel Fox said...

Our girl loves the Oscars so we watch the whole thing (wouldn't be my choice but you'll get used to that...). It was pretty funny this year, as it goes.

Good to see you at work!

x

Niamh B said...

Thanks all of ye, too kind

:-)

missed the oscars completely this year Rachel

The Bug said...

My favorite line is: Shiny tiny people taking tiny shiny people home - because ain't that the truth!

Niamh B said...

yes, you have to be tiny to act - it's they only way they can fit you on screen.

I'll never act