In another poem, I swim the English Channel
Meet my love halfway across
In another poem, I play pool
Miss school, am a fool
In another poem, an unruly sun
Pokes through my curtains
In another poem, I wear a necklace
Of visible kisses
In another poem, I wander hillwards
But not that lonely
This is not that poem
Copyright © 2020 Kim Whysall-Hammond
‘In another poem’ was published by Lamplit Underground in their Issue 4 (Monsters) September 2020: https://www.lamplitunderground.com/read
Each couplet references a poem I had read the week I wrote this poem. Can you work out which poems? I admit, the first one will be tricky…….but the last one should be easy-peasy!
A poem/s within a poem,,.. a I wonder where is that poem… cleverly done Kim… I love your abstract format…
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Thanks Ivor, I was in a playful mood that day!
But can you name any of the poems I’m refering to? ;)
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I’ll try tomorrow, it’s the midnight hour here and I’m about to enter my dreamtime 🌏😴
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What a delight! Thank you for a smile on this day I needed a smile. I love how playful and clever this poem is, and appreciate the nod toward poets and poems (that has me digging through the poetry section in my brain to spot them all)!
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I’m glad I got you to smile. Have more fun identifying my poets! Number one is possibly the most obscure. I’ll say who they are at the weekend.
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I’ve got the first two as Matthew Arnold and Gwendolyn Brooks but I don’t recognize the 3rd or 4th. Wordsworth, of course, is the finale.
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The third and fourth poets are English, the fourth is contemporary but the third died a long time ago…..
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Oh, and the first one isn’t Arnold…. ;)
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It’s been three days, do we get the answers?
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Yup, about to post them!
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I love this poem. It’s beautiful. Xxxxxx
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Thanks Julie –good to see you here! How’s things?
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They are dreamt. Doing lots of art but not doing much blogging. I would do more.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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nice..kind of following in the footsteps of T.S Eliot’s ‘The Waste Land’
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Thanks Larry.
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