Wednesday, 24 February 2021

the bridge of throngs

 the bridge of throngs


there’s a queue of muses

  on the other side

of that great bridge

  across that great divide

all have tickets A to Z

  waiting to pass 

through the guts of me

  waiting to pass

their messages to you

i have their words on

  the winds that blew

their lines of poetry

  from them to you

they are unruly bunch

  these poets dead

jostling and pushing

  to get inside my head

although 

some seem to be quiet

  reticent slow to raise a hand

at the back in their chair

  as if it were planned

to sit it out

  to wait and see

what scribe am i 

  what i profess to be

that i fear no critics view

  that my eclecticity

is deemed poor in taste

   and that i need pity 

will i seek to conform

to be the norm

or will i say it 

as i am bid

and having done so 

close the lid

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