Monday, 17 September 2012

The street

Poverty
Mist
A death
On the street
A child skipping gaily
Running
Hopping.
So sweet


The gutters cleansed
Just a man
With his cart
As the milk
Gently warming
At the afternoon start


The doorsteps gleaming
They are every day
From moments dreaming
That poverty
Won't stay


Inspiration: "London Street, 1951" by Robert Frank

1 comment:

  1. An afternoon nearly wasted on hopeless poetry blogs of rhyming verse about butterflies and ex-boyfriends... Yours is the combo breaker. Thanks!

    ReplyDelete