lines from the blue notebook
beyond impossibilities hints and cautions the sounds of loss
ghost ship run aground sinking to your knees prelude to
punishment stranger than forgiveness truth
arrives in a raging tide while your fear
puts on a dark grey overcoat
most of us fade into our own history careless mourning doves
missing our silver tongued companions we wait
for words to catch fire all wild and wise
like delicate beach glass a glimpse
of what will come from what
love poem to the existentialists
a word is not the meaning of a thing
there are too many blank scrabble tiles
in between the meanings
still all words have their price
equal parts what you want and what you don’t
the aftershock of too many verbs
but you continue to write love poems
to the existentialists assign yourself the task
of deciphering their philosophy
although you know the game is fixed
and you are running out of sympathy
and moving on
to where it’s best to remain on the sidelines
inhabiting and exiled at the same time
within the neighbourhood uncertain
Linda King is the author of five poetry collections-including Reality Wayfarers ( Shoe Music Press, 2014) and antibodies in the alphabet ( BlazeVOX Books, 2019). Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals in Canada and internationally ( including Lothlorien Poetry Journal ). She has been nominated for Best of the Net and also for The Pushcart Prize. King lives on The Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Canada.
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