Daily Archives: October 3, 2014
CHASING DREAMS WITH BROKEN WINGS -Promote Yourself
Do you know what its like
Chasing dreams
With no wings
Chase a dream
So far from reach
Through the realms of reality
Have to redefine
Time and space
Baby, its an inner race
Pave through life by cheating
Conjure up my will
Take tragic beatings
But become accustomed
To changing the weather
By snatching free-falling feathers
Because it’s mighty difficult
Chasing dreams
Paving through life
With broken wings
But, God you should see the details
Of the fabric in this wing
A world of show and tell
Of how she rose and fell
Baby, it was just her beginning…
By Carmina Bioc
Dedicated to Imelda Cruz Bioc, my mother, who passed away to cancer. She sacrificed time and distance to give my sisters and I a better future in America. This poem was inspired by a photo I took a few years ago. Serendipity, they call it
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Some people write like Wordsworth – Promote Yourself
Some people are amazing
They write like Wordsworth
Or Maya Angelou
Or John Donne
Others are fun like Roger and Pam and Robert
And Edward And John
Cooper-Clarke
There is a small group
Of students
Who discovered poetry
As
Antidote to sloppy
Valentine drivels
– at least partly my aim
“Let me be your Ford cortina
I will never rust…”
They write like Wordsworth
Or Maya Angelou
Or John Donne
Others are fun like Roger and Pam and Robert
And Edward And John
Cooper-Clarke
There is a small group
Of students
Who discovered poetry
As
Antidote to sloppy
Valentine drivels
– at least partly my aim
“Let me be your Ford cortina
I will never rust…”
Gradually Shakespeare
Got a look in
Sonnet puzzles
Cut up and
Mix and match
And sorted out.
Macbeth was cool
– and then not
“He killed all the kids?”
stark incomprehension
from streetwise ones
who earlier
put me right
on up to date
police procedures
after “incidents”
and what the cells
and forms
were like.
And Romeo and Juliet
Four funerals
And a wedding
Mercutio dealing drugs
So when Wordsworth
Stole a boat
He was
“A good ol’ boy”
but still “gay”*
for the dancing daffodils.
*apologies for the offence…we had the discussion…many times…
Improvement was they didn’t use the term when I was around…!
GCSE Eng Lit insisted on Daffodils at that time.
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