Poetry Update

Status Report...

Poetry..

Sometimes it happens when you least expect it.

I was at the beach pretending to write a sequel to “Summer Delicious” but really it was just an excuse for a swim. I mean - look at the photos…

The water was enveloping, cool, washing away worry like clearing an etch a sketch; (does anyone still have those??)

I wrote a few words in my journal out of a sense of duty but really - poetry was nowhere in sight. I just had that odd feeling of verbal clumsiness; the linguistic equivalent of being a crap amateur Carpenter. Nothing I nailed together looked right and it all fell apart as soon as I looked at it.

I gave up, grabbed my phone and cruised Substack instead. Straight away there was a Note from some stranger saying: “Hey everyone! Give me an update on your current status. What are you doing right now?”

Well okay. Why not? So I sat back in the sand, relaxed my brain and wrote this….

Poetry Update

“Summer Delicious” was my poem –
posted online, ice cream licked lapped up and …..
liked.

I went back to the beach 
for a sequel. Instead, 
tumbled in the waters then 
sat in the sun - salt encrusted and
satiated - watching all 
the sand scattered lives 
spread out around me, assorted.

The poem - perhaps 
disguised as a seagull – 
proved elusive. I sensed it 
somewhere close - fluttering 
just out of reach of my pen – 
quieter than sight; more visible 
than the sound of the waves; tastier 
than the touch of the warm dry wind on my skin….

Then I picked up my phone, opened Substack, 
found your post and wrote this.

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