Repair Your Mind! ... My Lover Waved from a Train by AVERIL BONES
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AVERIL BONES
My Lover Waved from a Train


In these parts, it is customary to swim,
and I was walking on concrete to sand.

Before I had even smelled the ocean
but was still caged by traffic, and roads,

my lover waved from a train.
I smiled, and waved gaily in return

until the train swung its rattling boxes,
and flipped its loud metal tail
in reply to my laughter.

Strolling past strangers,
I could not hold my face
from beauteous smile

reflected, at some location,
I'm sure, by his.
HORVATH.WS

Saints, and few poets, recognize beauty in life's simple brevity.

Commonplace? Tragedy? Enough to notice, then move on to more 'concrete' hard or 'sand' soft walks.

Bravo! Averil Bones demonstrates soft contemplation of a hard moment. - JH

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RICHARD JORDAN
Poetry in Motion

In the airport,
if you stand on
the moving walkway,
it pulls you along,
and you know that it's moving,
but if you walk at just
the right pace, it seems like
the moving walkway
isn't moving at all.
Now, if you look down at
the moving walkway
when you're trying to walk
so fast that it appears
to be moving backward,
your vision blurs,
and you feel like you're stoned.
Sometimes you like that feeling

THE MOVING WALKWAY
IS NEARING ITS END.
PLEASE WATCH YOUR STEP

and sometimes you don't.
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Can a poem's greatness lay in its possibilities for misinterpretation?

Consider the 'airport" as our point of departure, death. Then the walkway becomes fate or our lives in relation to fate.

It is never sufficient to read a poem at its surface values. Reader, you must go beyond..."and sometimes you don't."

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