What does it all mean?
Not just the title above,
but life itself?
A picture of a scone, soon,
might be trite –
as is much that I write –
but is it any different
from all else that will suffice
to be the stuff
that nightmares
are made on?
.
Please excuse my wittering
(I can witter at will)
and take this from my words:
‘If you have just received
a picture of a scone
through the post,
it has probably already arrived.’
I wrote this poem
(well, when finished
I shall have done),
and I wrote it about
the picture that I took.
.
Not much of a picture,
not much of a poem;
but, when combined…
still not much
to write home about.
.
I doubt either will win a prize,
if one did,
to the judging panel,
it would be a huge surprise.
When I took the picture
I left plenty of room
for the poem
that would accompany it.
When I took the other picture
I left plenty of room
for the seagull
that would inhabit it.
I didn’t take any more pictures,
as I’d left plenty of room
for improvement.
‘Here’s the Pitch’
Here’s the pitch,
which is empty now;
but, with imagination,
the game’s afoot,
Sherlock United
vs Moriarty City,
can you see all the action?
No, well, more’s the pity.
‘Half-Time Oranges’
At half-time
the teams went off
in search of oranges;
the crowd went off
in search of oranges,
the match officials went off
In search of oranges,
and, as the oranges were so good,
no one came back.
Picture this…
A magpie atop a skeletal tree;
calls a message that is far beyond me
and my ability to understand.
He, or she, then flies off;
of perching and calling
they’d had enough;
time, now, to travel on, upon airwaves so fine,
to visit a mate;
and under that moment
I draw a line.
A picture
is not a permanent fixture;
whether it is upon a canvas
upon a wall,
or painted directly upon a surface;
The Last Supper
will not last forever
and may be renamed
The Lost Last Supper.
Pictures painting a thousand words
are not always exactly at a thousand – at least, that is my thought upon the phrase.
‘A picture can paint a lot of words’
may, technically, be more apt –
but less apposite.
Graeme Sandford 