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Donall Dempsey
Poems
May 2015
AN AMPERSAND &...
AN AMPERSAND &...
An & and
an & and another.
I fill up the page
build a wall of &’s
I’ve always loved
their variousness
this the sharp contraction
of the simple “and.”
&&&&&&&&&&
&&&&&&&&&&
&&&&&&&&&&
&&&&&&&&&&
&&&&&&&&&&
&&&&&&&&&&
My writer’s block
hides behind
my wall of ****
ampersands.
Suddenly the words
break through
my man-made
ampersand wall!
“Thought I’d almost lost
you there sunshine!”
the poem beams.
“Ok, words!
Let’s get to work here!”
“Hup hup let’s get this
poet up and running!”
The poem puts
the pen in my hand
puts the pen
to the page.
“Ok son…get on
with it!”
And the hand
remembers
by candlelight how
it all happened
one day in
…French.
The poet goes &
makes a cup of Cocoa.
The page reads
the poem over
to itself.
“Not bad…not bad!”
the page laughs to itself.
“Poets! Ha!
Who’d ‘ave ‘em!”
VERRE D'EAU
il pleut dans
le verre d'eau oubliée
remplir à craquer
le verre vide maintenant
renversée par la pluie féroce
scintillant dans le soleil
une coccinelle rampe à l'intérieur
cet univers de verre
le chant des oiseaux tombe sur l'herbe mouillée
Written by
Donall Dempsey
Guildford
(Guildford)
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