All the lovely others
New year, blank page
Nothing yet written
Though pleasing words are buzzing
Vying for attention, willing
Me to choose, best smile
Plastered on, coo-ee, waving
Winsome, wanting their moment
Ink on the page
New book, number 4
Moleskine, naturally
I've been seduced, signed up
To that charming, manufactured
Myth, me and Picasso
Bruce Chatwin, we artists
Aficionados of its style
The pleasing size and feel
Left thumb spreading
-Though new soft cover?
Jury I think still out-
But most of all, convenient
And portable, to catch
Them as they fall
The chosen ones, eventually
It's hard to make the first mark
On that pristine snow glare
Page, this road then, not that
All the lovely others,
Possibilities not realised today
But that's creation for you
A poem or a child
These words, these genes
Uniquely strung, just so
And who would have it otherwise
This January day
First lines committed, something writ
Fresh prints across the snow
New year, blank page
Nothing yet written
Though pleasing words are buzzing
Vying for attention, willing
Me to choose, best smile
Plastered on, coo-ee, waving
Winsome, wanting their moment
Ink on the page
New book, number 4
Moleskine, naturally
I've been seduced, signed up
To that charming, manufactured
Myth, me and Picasso
Bruce Chatwin, we artists
Aficionados of its style
The pleasing size and feel
Left thumb spreading
-Though new soft cover?
Jury I think still out-
But most of all, convenient
And portable, to catch
Them as they fall
The chosen ones, eventually
It's hard to make the first mark
On that pristine snow glare
Page, this road then, not that
All the lovely others,
Possibilities not realised today
But that's creation for you
A poem or a child
These words, these genes
Uniquely strung, just so
And who would have it otherwise
This January day
First lines committed, something writ
Fresh prints across the snow
10th January 2010, Premier Inn Heathrow
Looking forward to book number 4!As for Moleskines I'm not sure, feeling a bit overwhelmed with them here might have to go for something else when the time comes!!
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