Love Poem to my LEG Washing-machine
I love your spotless square white box, your gaping steely jaws; I love to watch my pants and socks whirl round inside your maw. I love your groans, I love your mutter, your swish and swash, your splutter-splutter. But when you sing your little song to tell me that my wash is done, I love […]
Noises off
Noises off Silence across the fields. Bright, clear, calm today. Not a breath of wind, trees standing stock-still, leaves hung out on display without the slightest tremor. No-one to be seen. Just a few sparrows flitting here and there, only the faintest tweetling rustling in the hedgerows. But then from over a hill comes the […]
Large Hadron Collider
Buried alive in darkest matter, mutant earthworms have eaten into the soul of a star, listening for its secret confessions. We must not look at Medusa but our shields sense the quantum roar and flash of nature’s birth, sifting universes of spider filigree to confound a billion Ariadnes. Hidden in coded clouds is the trace […]
Day 25.
What about modern technology? Do you marvel and/or despair? Kit Wright offers this humorous contribution : http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=1728 Technology.