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Welcome to my collection of concrete poetry.
Ever since I was a child, I have loved and admired poets who have written concrete or picture poetry. Yet even to this day, it is one aspect of poetry which is rarely been taken seriously by the publishers of poetry collections, but hopefully with the arrival computerised file transfers, it will soon become more of an acceptible art.
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Dragonfly a fly flight,hover,flight,hover,flight,hover sporadic~~~~~~~~flying~~~~~~~movement a natural~~~~glowing~~~~neon display~~~~~over water~~~~~reflective d r a g o n f l y *
A Sign of British Summer. *
A sign of British summer. ~Fishtailed swallows chasing fast across the sky,~ ~swooping, hooping, looping on the wing to catch the fly,~ ~~~flashing, acrobatic hunting fresh from the African sky~~~ to join England in her~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~open summer sky, swooping over water scooping on the wing chasing moth and fly acrobatic season fishtails in the sky
Bottled Emotions. Every day I look your way a warm feeling I find inside, but my eyes can not hold yours and the feeling slowly dies. Emotions I have in store this love I hold for you, but you don't see what we could be and leave me feeling blue, so all I have, can offer you I must lock away inside, and carry on the day ahead and I dream of you by my side, but they can only offer, a shadowed hollow form, as I must keep these feelings bottled, locked away and unborn. you shall never see them nor the passions they contain, and I will keep them out of sight, back from where they came. Placed upon the shelf with other symbols of my past deep inside this bottle the one with tear-stains left upon the glass.
Volcano. The final cluster of birds leave the vibrant green crown, their island home as they head away over a sea of oceanic blue, they shall return no-more. And the island falls captive to silence, all wildlife waits for the unknown, they look, they listen, they wait, in trees, in burrows, in fear. When will it come? What will it be? All senses become confused, did they hear it before they felt it? The island now bursts into sound, but not one of natures song, one of panic as every beast cries in alarm. Their world becomes alive, and rages in anger, as a long forgotten movement takes a hold.
And the very volcano which gave a dry land to the sea, a haven for a million animals, now turns on itself, and rains a hot ash, and slowly sinks back into the sea again. The heavy cloud that fills the sky to cover the sun's sorrow, and an ever increasing ripple that runs out to spread the news across the sea all that remains, until in the heart of the storm, debris rises , leaving one final signpost.
A Mountain Called. A voice from within a mountain called, discover yourself, come climb these walls, and if you reach my distant top, you'll know yourself before you stop, and only then you shall understand your reason for being placed upon this land, I did all this and learnt a lot, but one mountain can't show all inside you have got.
All rights reserved, ©Andrew Hide.2003 Copying without permission for non-personal use is forbidden.
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