A Taste of Hunger
None of my walls are straight
So why
on earth should I be straight
with you
Go on, tell me, tell me do ..
I live in a crooked world
of the most acute offset lines
and flawed masonry ..
So why should I pretend to
subscribe
to such technical lineography
Go on ..
Tell me, tell me, tell me do ..
why am I still so
very hurt and oh’ so very hungry ..
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Great title. Awesomely quirky house you live in!
....................... Caw, fanks S C .. actually, I really do.. not long moved into my converted and restored Banked Threshing Barn which dates back to 1545 and Henry the 8th ... 🙂
Oh stop it. Now you're just showing off. The closest i get to 1545 is the bus that goes past my house!
Maybe ‘cause Henry got all the courtesans and many wives, screwing up everybody else’s lives, that’s why you live in a crooked house and are always hungry - I know I would be
Loved the read
thank you my friend ............................. 🙂
Dear Nev - Is this your old house defending itself I wonder - or maybe tis a metaphor expertly constructed Everyone's flawed and to be reminded that crooked is unacceptable can hurt thus
creating one of the worst hungers - - a powerful piece of potent answer and do hope it worked........x
.. It worked precisely like a 'Double Diamond' used to work thanks Fay ................ x
Nothing is straight and linear when you are hurt and hungry for resolution.
Hurt and hungry stem from an unjust finale.
................ Cheers
....................... DA
.............. N 🙂
A fine write N.
... That'll do nicely Mr. O 🙂
Neville,
A very interesting and intriguing read.
We may feed our hunger…
but never enough to sate it.
Laura🌻
thank you so much, what a great response to my little scribble Laura ... there must surely be a poem in there somewhere methinks 🙂 🌻
I’m certain there is…
for your gifted pen! ✍🏻
Hurt because you bust your head on the door lintel (them old houses) and the mice ate your tucker, Neville?
Great story - enjoyed the imagery.
Ta for popping in DD .. Always appreciated sir 🙂
One day that hurt and hunger will be satisfied and all will be good in your house.
Andy
All is good Andy ... ta for the visit and concern ... I must confess to occasionally injecting a little bit o poetic license .. just for the sake of it ... peace and all good things my friend 🙂
'I live in a crooked world
of the most acute offset lines
and flawed masonry ..
So why should I pretend to
subscribe
to such technical lineography'..
this is so, so deep my friend
it could anchor
an entire books worth of literary thread...
sheer articulated brevity of insightful brilliance!
in my humble opinion
(and sorry for my abrupt comment in your last poem
your words took me to my favourite metaphor of love
'that red string of fate';
a concept originally of Chinese origin, I think
but I love the Japanese wording, where I fatefully
came across it first)
...................... thank you and truly my good friend .. always appreciated, no end 🙂
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