Is there a rabbit hatching an egg on the magic roundabout
Is this a dream or wake on view, in viewing post, review
Today I sat, deep in the land of thought, lamenting
Sleep came and went before the midnight hour hit clock
Still I had a journey, long in the land of silence to contend with
I brought out my thinking cup, boiling to the brim, near overflow
The clocks found their voices to whisper outrageous loud
Yelling away in synchronicity, with the second's finger
So that got me up, in the land of insomnia
Hours before the new day was born to morning light
Like a father in anticipation, pacing up and down
The corridors of time and life in expectation
Looking deep into walls, to be privileged with ponder
First sights into rooms and what comes after
Would the rabbit hatch an egg, wearing a pink tutu
Would the mermaid, stand on catwalks in a beauty contest
Oh what is to come, when the clock hits the hour
And Grayson Perry got all dressed ready in waiting
For t' second coming of Alan Measles worshiping a teddy bear
What comes after, when the clock hits the hour
I don't know anything about Grayson Perry, but I do know about insomnia. Not my favorite way to spend a night. Happy New Year to you.
ReplyDeleteLove the metaphor here... we wait in anticipation for this great new year and then, BAM... it's just another day.
ReplyDeleteBest to you in 2012.
What a journey this took me on and to such depths. I love when someone introduces me to a new artist (to me) and a different way of seeing the world. Whatever else Grayson Perry may be, his art is interesting, disturbing and simultaneously really beautiful. He seems as much of a contradiction as time ending and beginning in the same minute so a really amazing metaphor for the new year. Really appreciated your set of couplets and congratulate you on an innovative poem complete with a mind and time re-set! Really well done! Gay
ReplyDeletevery lovely story.
ReplyDeleteHappy New Year.
great imagery, especially
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Wherein my label was destroyed
oh wonderfully surreal! I like your musings here - many great descriptions
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