Tonight's Poet Corner: Collaborative Poetic Effort
Collaborative Poetic Effort
by Belinda Roddie
I've got a chandelier swinging from
the ceiling of my mouth, kept in a little
penthouse in my soul - got those metaphors
from a student and fellow teacher. They came
up with them to the sound of a ping pong ball.
Chandelier's the only original image I could add
to the architecture they set up in my brain - which
I guess is a cerebral castle, with turrets where I keep
my dreams, and with a dungeon for all the secrets
I will forever keep from anyone else.
But don't bring the tongue into the meter - that
was enough to make that same student take a lap
around the school to wash his mind of the
complexity of the mirage.
by Belinda Roddie
I've got a chandelier swinging from
the ceiling of my mouth, kept in a little
penthouse in my soul - got those metaphors
from a student and fellow teacher. They came
up with them to the sound of a ping pong ball.
Chandelier's the only original image I could add
to the architecture they set up in my brain - which
I guess is a cerebral castle, with turrets where I keep
my dreams, and with a dungeon for all the secrets
I will forever keep from anyone else.
But don't bring the tongue into the meter - that
was enough to make that same student take a lap
around the school to wash his mind of the
complexity of the mirage.
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