Boredom

Boredom is not something that comes easily to me

Infact I have to work at it

Wishing it to slink in like lazy cat on a hot day

I feel the heat

The sting and the sweat of working up to a 'symphony'

Of half baked plans

Frustrated 'goal's

Of dissillusionment

My attempt at boredom has failed

The weather never ceases to amuse me

[...] Read more

poem by Yvette Smith
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Flat pack

Constructed at will

By will constructed

Instructed at will

By will instructed

If anyone knows will whose real name is bill

Can you ask him instructed him

To construct it?

Is he the instructor?

or the metagrobulizing instructor?

And who is he instructing?

[...] Read more

poem by Yvette Smith
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

X

She remembers sounds cracked from words shells

Echoes across abandoned parks

Seashores

Somehow frozen in time

She talks out of tempo

A Stuttering shuffling game

But she is not playing

She watches

stopped still

Outside the life

[...] Read more

poem by Yvette Smith
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Why

Tonight the earth will arrive like a gift

I promised I would send it by parcel force

You will hear that little clod on the carpet

As it falls through the slit in the door

Where I have been standing for so long

Waiting to be let in

Unlucky so many times before!

[...] Read more

poem by Yvette Smith
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Amen

They raised the oak

Then let it gently sink into the soft dark earth

Soon your roots would be rekindled

Some brought candles

Some burnt fires

But no one could interpret the silence

For a sign

Poets sat in bars

At the same chair

Where they were always seated

[...] Read more

poem by Yvette Smith
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Misreading 'misnomer

I mistook blue for sorrow

Misread the blue clouds in a grey day

Full of white unclaimed passages

I made long corridors,

My loneliness,

Old mansions

Mysterious wombs

Echoing history

I riddled the earth

With the decay

[...] Read more

poem by Yvette Smith
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

When Someone Dies

When someone dies

A piece of you goes missing, as if it has also died

When somethings lost

Something that belonged to that loved one now gone

You are left

Alone in a room full of unnamed things that have no meaning

It is as if the light has gone out

From the room

Where you stand waiting

All day and all night

[...] Read more

poem by Yvette Smith
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

A brief encounter [with a jelly]

It was a wibbly wobbly 'affair'

Where dibbly dobbly was nibbling

Wibbly wobbled her way

She moggled his muggle

Then turned away

He was smitten smocked dead

By this little twiddle kitten

But in the hot clime of a humid day

his wibble sighed and flobbed away

She moggled his muggle one last time

[...] Read more

poem by Yvette Smith
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

House Of No Return

Tomorrow enter the house of no return

And you will find no memory of what has gone

The leaves blown in the gravel path

Where childish footprints played

The sun rolled out across the clouds

Into another day

Weeds grow now

Where once a soft emerald carpet flowed

And flowers crowned the air with scent

And fires burnt in Autumn evenings end

[...] Read more

poem by Yvette Smith
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

Don't Ever

Don't ever let me go,

Though I may fail you

And break you

And take you to places you don't want to go,

Take a moment to forget what love is

All the strange euphemisms

That one word takes

And the vows we never keep

And the dark places where love weeps

And let love speak

[...] Read more

poem by Yvette Smith
Added by Poetry Lover
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!