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Hornsey Blossom

In Hornsey

      N8

          resting.

              From somewhere

                  a rising crescendo

                       'Ohhh, My God, yes.

                            That's so fuckin' good!'

                                On the walkway

                                      the plasticised soles

                                           of black pumps

                                                slap the pavement

                                                   obscenely,

                                                        I think.

                                                              But ...

                                                                  Hang on!

                                                            I hold

                                                      slowing

                                                 And

                                            look up.

                                      *From a cherry tree

                                 an exquisite

                           pink blossom

                       releases herself

                  gliding

              closer

          &

     closer*.

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Written by
ashleyq5
55 / M / London
Published
Oct 4, 2017
Lines·Words
27·56
Notes

Unfortunately, this poem hardly works on a mobile. It needs a wide screen to catch the visual effect.

I've seen the way some write here on HePo using the line breaks to punctuate and I wanted to try.

There are other techniques, too, visual puns, that I love.

Anyway, when is a poem over? For me I tinker over days, through many hours, moving stuff around until I can't move anything any more because the effect of moving it jars with the intention. The intention? I don't know, it's intuitive. This poem for instance is problematic because what I really liked about it was the juxtaposition of a blossom and my own crabbiness, but that may not work for others, which would have meant that my love of the blossom would have been wasted. Ahhh, perhaps, if that's the case, she'll come back to me in some other way; for my love of the blossom springs, of course, eternal ...

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#hornsey#nw8#blossom#falsetto#woman#pumps
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