Lost Chances
that once waited, and remained unrealised. (Plus new version)
Pic.: my own
It’s,
the small clues we miss;
the hesitant glance,
lingering stillness,
manoeuvred nearness,
strange moments of distraction.
Unseen,
fate holds sway,
leaving
nodes of fine design,
mushroom buttons of lost chance,
languishing in darkness.
Unloved,
with no spores to follow,
they sink and vanish;
till,
falling light finds them,
on memory’s muddy floor;
white corralled pebbles,
shining,
in
slowly ebbing pools
of the mind.
(With thanks to John Shaw ‘woodbine’)
Goth:2004
I wrote another version more applicable to the current situation re. UKA:
Lost Causes
It’s work contributors
we miss
the rhymers and roamers
the flash narrators
the long-haul prosists
the promoters, the protesters
preachers, romantisizers,
fantasizers
poetising, humourising
solemizing, polemising – gently
Unseen
fate holds sway
with new membership closed
with old members
over the hill, and many far away⇑
Internet’s best presented site
is stagnating
languishing in darkness
Unloved
with only a handful
of persevering souls, including
at least one geek and a dork (myself?)
to follow
UKA will soon sink and vanish
till
with the Earth going under
TickTockers and Twits find it
a geocached list of ises and wannabes
and their efforts, slowly sinking
in the knee-deep junkyard
of lost domains
Goth:2023
I have read and re read your first poem, and the more I read the more I find in it. It says so much. It keeps drawing me back to see what more it will tell me. The second one.. I hope it won’t come to such a sad end. But of course you speak the truth. So many are now missing or heartbreakingly lost forever. For me this site and the contributors have inspired me when I had thought I would never be able to say ‘I write poetry’ with any conviction. Mike Verdi in particular took me under… Read more »
Thanks Sue, for your fine comment. The site’s in a sad state. Without new membership it’s stagnating. Perhaps a little too technically complicated for artistic people talented predominately in different forms of creative writing. But, easily learnable, keeping work at first in draft form allows for experimenting by trial and error with form and layout until the basics and individual preferences become just routine, before submitting. Even editing after submitting a piece, changing words and typos, adding images, is made easy by Richard’s site design. Yes Mike’s enthusiasm and straightforward, open social nature with no ‘hidden agendas’ is sorely missed, for… Read more »