I haven’t done very much creative writing over the last 12 years. I’ve started to practice writing again recently but not compulsively. I thought I’d share with you a draft of a poem I’m working on. What do you think? I can’t work out why the first line is indented. It’s annoying but nothing I can do about it.
The Unexpected
It's funny, life
The unexpected happens
Like air under plastic
You think it's flat, move your hand
Revealing the bubble
I used to potter through life
In my teens, my twenties
When I didn't know who I was
Now I'm dad, hubby, home owner, pension payer
Once impossible
Now reality
How did that happen?
Where was I?
When did my hair go thin?
When did my face lose its youth?
When did I get stale?
I don't recognise the face
In portraits I take
While on the train
Or at home, between emails
A middle aged man stares back
Dull, with middle class mores
2 comments:
I like the form and I definitely like the whole notion presented here. I think it is something most people from probably 35 or so on can relate to. That Talking Heads how did I get here??? thing...
Hope to see more of your work, FW.
Thanks for your comments LB.
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