Nothing Doing
\nby cricketjeff on April 2, 2012.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved
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\nElsewhere on this tree there’s a blackbird who sings
\nOf love after midnight while preening his wings,
\nA nest full of sparrows — who fight all night long
\nAnd where I can’t see a wren sings a new song.<\/p>\n
The ground underneath is well sheltered and warm,
\nA good place to hide from a Northerly storm,
\nBut all we can see here is droplets of rain
\nWhich isn’t exciting my muse, in the main.<\/p>\n
A bit to the left, no much lefter than that,
\nA lady is wearing a terrible hat,
\nHer daughter, beside her, won’t tell her the truth
\nBut deep in her eyes you can see her say “STREWTH!!!”<\/p>\n
The bus they’re expecting is never on time
\nTo call that a timetable must be a crime!
\nAnd still I see raindrops on part of a tree
\nWhich isn’t exploding in verse inside me.<\/p>\n
The street isn’t busy, there aren’t many cars,
\nIt’s daylight of course so there aren’t any stars,
\nPerhaps there’s a Moon but there’s cloud in the way,
\nThat happens a lot on a cold rainy day.<\/p>\n
What’s that in the background? I really can’t tell
\nIt’s coloured and blurry not clear as the bell,
\nThat just sounded one from the church over there —
\nI think you could see if you stood on a chair.<\/p>\n
Too bad that this image has nothing to say,
\nI can’t write its life in an int’resting way,
\nCan’t tell you the secrets that you cannot see,
\nAs nothing on screen has told any to me.<\/p>\n
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