A Trick of the Eye.
A Trick of the Eye.
A petrol-station forecourt sign
in a stiff wind, seems less benign. As
one short word on each curved side
is seen to spin, and so elide,
the eye decides the sign is for
not cleaner cars, but cash and war.
Comments
<Deleted User> (10123)
Mon 21st Jan 2013 12:30
Crikey! I've got some catching up to do if this is what unrhymed poems are. Grrrreat! ps e lied about omit of (whatever's missing) ta v. muchly,
Travis Brow
Wed 16th Jan 2013 11:00
Thanks Cathy, much obliged. I can't NOT write rhyming poems, if i'm honest.
Poignant. A lot said and there is not enough rhyming poetry about!
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Yvonne Brunton
Mon 21st Jan 2013 20:11
Love this, a great play with the words and a lovely lilting cadence to the rhymes ( I too have an affinity for rhyme)
On holiday in deepest Wales once I decided the sign on the door which read CLOOPSEEND must be the welsh word for OPEN. It was days before I realised that the sliding section of the sign was missing and I was reading an amalgamation of closed and open. Never thought about turning it into a poem though.