Do not pursue me
I will find you soon enough
Simply live your life
~
CLP 11/04/2021
Liberté, Égalité, Humanité
Do not pursue me
I will find you soon enough
Simply live your life
~
CLP 11/04/2021
Dear Charon,
Have you updated payment systems
for your ferry on the Styx
to allow ‘contactless’ payment,
or do you still insist on coins
complete or in bits?
.
(Just asking for a friend)
Yours truly,
Mort, A.L., esq
~
Dear Mr Mort,
For me, it as a rare treat indeed
to have a customer letter to read
letters about death are usually left
for the eyes of the newly bereft
.
and not for the ferryman
~
With respect to the tech
and with all due respect
despite combustion engine invention
there seems no intention
.
of providing one for the ferryman (I still have to row, row, row my boat gently down the stream).
~
In regard of cash or card
this may seem a trite hard
but the answer’s ‘no way’
will I change how souls pay
.
I just need to know who will pay the ferryman
~
I look forward to meeting you.
Yours in expectation
Charon
Styx River Ferry Corp. (Registered in Delaware, Malta & Gibraltar). No returns. No change given.
And now for our (optional) prompt. This is a twist on a prompt offered by Kay Gabriel during a meeting she facilitated at the Poetry Project last year. Today, I’d like to challenge you to write a two-part poem, in the form of an exchange of letters. The first stanza (or part) should be in the form of a letter that you write either to yourself or to a famous fictional or historical person. The second part should be the letter you receive in response. These can be as short or long as you like, in the form of prose poems, or with line breaks – and of course, the subject matter of the letters is totally up to you.
~
CLP 11/04/2021
it is a thin skin
that holds up Earth’s atmosphere
stops air falling in
~
n.b. i.e. the “meniscus”.
CLP 10/04/2021
your cheeks sting from the poison
you’ve been holding in
the stories you tell yourself
are like sports medals
pushed to the drawer back
corroding in a tin
.
memories can distort the past
can corrupt today
remember memory is malleable
not a library gathering dust
you are not a man of steel
tears won’t make you rust
~
n.b. NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Ten prompt: Song + Contents of a drawer = poem. Song ‘Rust‘ by Echo and the Bunnymen. Drawer contents pictured.
~
CLP 10/04/2021
impressive structure
floodlights stand proud of stadium
still waiting on green
~
n.b. Television can never replace the real deal. Plan to be there or expect to be square (eyed)…whenever being there, or anywhere is allowed.
~
CLP 09/04/2021
shape
even
keel
storm
warning
heavy
swell
rough
sea
side
swipe
rudder
less
a d i f
r t
cargo
shift
off
kilter
ballast
dangerous
list
jettison
MAYDAY
MAYDAY
abandon
ship
sink
flare
up
life
boat
crew
manifest
bill
of
laden
salvage
attempt
salvage
attempt
insurance
policy
claims
list
~
NaPoWriMo 2021 Day Nine prompt: list poem…asked for “to do list”…but this is a poem about listing.
~
CLP 09/04/2021