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The i’s and Ears

02 Saturday Mar 2013

Posted by Worldly Winds in Daily life, Humour, Poetry

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Alexandra Carr-Malcolm, humour, iphone, ipod, poetry, trains, travel, UK poet, Yorkshire poet

Most Humorous, Senior Superlatives, Fayettevil...

 

 

 

 

 

I’m at the station,

feeling impatient,

wanting to get on my way.

 

Announcement says,

there’s been delays,

engineering works causing affray.

 

The platform’s changed,

I’m turning deranged,

as I sprint to platform eight.

 

I just catch my train,

(these connections a pain)

we finally get on our way.

 

A seat on my own,

I pull out my tome,

absorbed in a classic romance.

 

‘til the people alight,

someone sits by my side,

with ipod and ears plugged in.

 

I huff and I puff,

at the jangly stuff,

a tinny annoying old din.

 

Mr Darcy must wait,

as distracted, I hate

to gaze through the window instead.

 

I seethe and I fume,

unintelligible tunes,

wishing their batteries were dead!

 

© The i’s and Ears 02.03.2013

by Alexandra Carr-Malcolm

Most Humorous, Senior Superlatives, Fayetteville High School, 1960 (Photo credit: North Carolina Digital Heritage Center)

 

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02 Saturday Mar 2013

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What a lovely write up – thank you 🙂

Dagda Publishing

As she whispers to herself,
her shouts become shadows,
and heartbeats chime thirteen;
the pain in her chest is not surpassed,
by the memory, of just before midnight.
Why did she stay? When all about said,
run, flee, escape, (or) you’ll rue the day.
Holding a bouquet of disdain,
she will mourn the bride,
and hide the pain.

© Alexandra Carr-Malcolm 2013

*****

In today’s featured poem, Alex brings us into a world where the fairytale has soured. Utilising the story of Cinderella, Alex paints a poignant picture of rejection, loneliness and regret. Brief in it’s construction, but long in it’s scope, this is a poem that is very easy for the reader to identify with if they have ever experienced loss,pain and rejection (and many of us have). A truly delightful and accomplished piece from this Sheffield poet.

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