davidgoulding84@interpoems.com
GOING VIRAL
What we want to be without,
wants to be within
and seems to be getting there at will
That’s in spite of vapoury advice,
and pusillanimous hints and pointers
from tiny men caught in a global tsunami,
and even the slow drip of saving jabs.
Funny: dowdy sparrows and gaudy jays,
Frogs, daffodils and modest snowdrops
Just did not, and will not realise.
And in Autumn migrating swallows
won’t escape, but just ignore
this excusable obsession with microscopic Vikings
MODERN WORLD
Daily, almost hourly
I have moaned about the modern world
But I am in it, whether part of it or not
A leaf might just as well berate its tree
for being too old or growing too fast
or not enough.
If the tree is felled the leaf goes with it
without voice but not belittled by the fall
Yes I am in it, right in it.
Perhaps I should use what tiny influence I have ,
but mainly live for me and mine.
Involving or avoiding, walking with or side-stepping as suits,
not agonising and not too flippant either or too cool:
just aware and moving on.
EMBRACE THE MODERN WORLD
Against some prejudices and tired spirits
I will embrace the modern world.
Tear up the letters, forget the phones with wires:
The postcards and the telegrams already unremembered.
New as the tree-torn apple and the unwrapped sock,
I lovingly accept tomorrow’s latest and I find
A kaleidoscope of media
Converging and expanding
Like waves of starlings in a three dimensional sky.
The starlings sing and imitate in discord , yet all ideas are echoes of each other.
Just as their solo bodies merge to form the swirling clouds.
Human copying is not creative and less thoughtful.
New streams for individuals to express
Turn into rivers for mobs to drown in.