Borrowing Twilight
Come, Luggage! There's a curious world I'm longing to explore
Of course, I'll keep my distance from the tourists I deplore,
From towers, domes and steeples
Throw caution to the wind,
To question alien peoples
Both pink- and purple-skinned
We'll savour sights which sapient men have never viewed before
And never tell the folks back home that it was all a bore.
Come, Apricots! There's a fruit salad I am longing to recreate
With kumquats, granny apples and a single mejool date,
From superstores and delis
Throw syrup to the air
Daub peach-juice on our bellies
and dance without a care,
We'll savour bites which men have never dared put on their plate
Come, Readers! There's a whole new verse we still must see,
With rhyming, and with scansion and the weirdly odd spondee
We'll view spontaneous haiku
Anapestic stress,
Not that we mention pike, you
THAT would be a mess!
Contributors: | TG, Stacy, Linda, Simon, Roland, The Agent Apsley. |
Poem finished: | 17th February 1998. |