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:
Ah! I love the whimsy in this!
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!
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!
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