Thursday, 13 March 2008

Poet and don't I know it

Sometimes I think it might be quite easy being a poet.
All you need is fragments of words, phrases, you don't even have to finish it
It can be abstract, make no sense.
It doesn't matter.

The image is put across without the need for chapters.
Without too much rhyme or reason.
Really...without too much rhyme.
They don't have too anymore.
All that effort of a prize winning school girls poem about Croydon water tower.
It mentioned flower - and power - amongst over things.

The poet I would most like to be my mum Jackie Kay, makes me want to speak my poems in a sing song Glaswegian voice.
But I can nae do it ken, and not even a wee dram of whisky will help that South London drawl.
I'm quite fond of it though really.

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