Monday 5 September 2011

Chance Meeting with a Snake

my route
was a scar
up the face
of a cliff
rising over
a forest
but soon
there was only
one spot
for my feet
(or my hands)
and there
on that stone
there was
coiled
a black snake
and sensing
my presence
she hissed
and she squirmed
but I had
no agenda
and she had
after all
prior claim
to that stone
so I then backed away
to seek
a new route
and I left her
in peace
with her scars

gw2011

5 comments:

  1. If that had been me I would have fallen off Gwilym. Like the way you have made the poem snake-like in shape - reminded me of Edwin Morgan's wonderful poem Heron.

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  2. Liked how the lnes are so short, just how brain and breath would work in the situation.

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  3. Pat, Gerald, Gordon, Satyapal, many thanks for your comments. Much appreciated! Gwilym.

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