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Submitted: Dec 3, 2007    Reads: 54    Comments: 4    Likes: 6   


 As silver paint drips from my stressed paint brush

I stand back to admire a collection of stormy clouds

Each pother is decorated with a neat shiny edge

A border that tells me, even dark days contain some light

 

A royal appointed judge in red robes

Sits proud, bathed in gloss upon a cover

I leaf the thick novel, packed tight with many words

Yet I shall not pass verdict, I know not this book

 

I am no plumber, but with this wrench of determination

I hope to prize this porcelain sink from that stubborn wall

Everything else from this baron kitchen is packed

While I may allow defeat, those chrome taps are coming with me


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Dody
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As silver paint drips from my stressed paint brush

"I stand back to admire a collection of stormy clouds

Each pother is decorated with a neat shiny edge

A border that tells me, even dark days contain some light"

This could be a poem all by itself. I ADORE the word 'pother' -

Posted: Dec 3, 2007

Author Comment:

Yeh it is one of those words always makes me smile. Pother pother pother

I remember us trying to open a bottle of red wine with a sink..As the imprisoned cork was smashed free with the impact half the sink crashed to the floor .
Gotta love those little surprises .
Excellent poem !

Posted: Dec 3, 2007

Author Comment:

Got to love red wine!

Irwin
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This surely is a collection of three seperate poems each a gem! The last one I remember well from my younger days - now it's all red wine (Shiraz).

Posted: Dec 3, 2007

Author Comment:

Many thanks, it is 3 very popular idioms, given a poetice spin. 1. Every cloud has a silver lining 2. You can not judge a book by its cover 3. Everything but the kitchen sink.

I could seek the hot and cold as innocent or guilty.

Posted: Dec 4, 2007

Author Comment:

Mmmm could be, that is one thing I love about writing. Interpretation of the reader is everything.



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