The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling.
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven,
And as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

-W.Shakespeare

Friday 14 November 2014

Woodsview

I spent days without spending
in a cell full of elephants
and two brothers who meowed
      at themselves.
We shared a home not our own,
of our own choosing,
only escaping
to suck in the smoke of the streets
I had the English key
at my disposal,
and what did I dispose?
Life is waiting for periods
a structure to hide in,
a circle drawn around us,
an obsession with things larger
      than us,
the elephants, circle of time, 
unending returning hunger,
an expanding universe
trapped within the mind.

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