marriage (Remove filter)
Something Old, Something New
You send me back my wedding dress
20 years too late…
wrapped not in finest tissue
confetti tumbling from its folds
nor draped across a lover’s arms
regret pressed to every empty seam
not folded at all
but jammed like stinking gym shorts
into this case, too small
compressed, flattened
obligatory bow adrift
sad reminder of all that was.
An ivo...
Wednesday 2nd March 2011 9:00 pm
Recent Comments
Stephen Atkinson on Song Of Hope
29 minutes ago
Marla Joy on Favorite Poet
1 hour ago
Sarah pritchard on Write Out Loud looks back … at the early days of lockdown. How did poets cope?
3 hours ago
Julian Jordon on Write Out Loud looks back … at the early days of lockdown. How did poets cope?
6 hours ago
Larisa Rzhepishevska on The Day Of Liberation
6 hours ago
julie callaghan on The World We Live In
8 hours ago
Russell Jacklin on Around the Law in 80 Days
13 hours ago
Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh on Around the Law in 80 Days
15 hours ago
Luke on Dion
1 day ago
Wordseffectbrew on Lakewalk
1 day ago