Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Tuesday Poem - Multiple Choice Love Poem



Multiple Choice Love Poem
(with 1024 Possibilities)

Today was full of
a)   low lying clouds
b)   jazz tunes played by silver saxophones
c)    desperate rain
d)   sailing ships in full rig

and my heart returns to you,
a)   flying kites on 90 mile beach
b)   painting my toenails purple
c)    slicing the ends off my sentences
d)   walking through the clouds

to tell me
a)   the train timetable in Spanish.
b)   how to make sushi.
c)    how each glitter means yes.
d)   to tango with the tea towels.

How could I refuse your invitation
a)   to walk my fingers with yours on that map of Paris
b)   to fold origami tigers at midnight
c)    to eat decadence from a sundae glass
d)   to write manifestoes from last year’s birthday cards

when you are to me
a)   the equation I never understood?
b)   a year of summer haiku?
c)    a shot of vodka in the spinning dark?
d)   a moody picnic complete with rain?

Today was full of
a)   urgent travel plans to other hearts
b)   flamenco dancers stripping in the mall
c)    jigsaws with missing pieces
d)   French horns blaring out of breath

and missing you. 


© Catherine Bateson



It's Tuesday with plenty of poems to read. Check the Tuesday Poem hub for an excerpt from Kristi Whalen's prose poem, 'Brave Like' curated this week by Saradha Koirala. From the hub you can access other poems. That's right folks - no Tuesday Poems are cut despite Tony Abbott's best efforts to undermine culture, education and the health of this nation. When he was first elected I thought, what an embarrassment he will be. I was wrong. He is so much worse that merely being an embarrassment. So much worse.

3 comments:

Michelle Elvy said...

Ah! I love the whimsy in this!

Ben Hur said...

Great minds! I had a similar idea to this poem some years ago but mine never progressed past a couple of incomplete lines. You actually wrote it and beautifully too!

Ben Hur said...

Great minds! I had a similar idea to this poem some years ago but mine never progressed past a couple of incomplete lines. You actually wrote it and beautifully too!