A Pocketful of Poesy was and is again a Poem-a-Day(-on-Average) Blog! For 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, and now for 2017 and going forward, you may expect to see 365 poems every year, 366 for leap years.

but aren't they all random?

Saturday, May 30, 2020

rear-view driver

You want to climb into the rear-view mirror.
The road seems clear, the view more fine
back there. All the boring ugly lies
forgotten in the press

To keep and memorize the truth
and beauty to compare. Besides,
you got through all of that. And so
in hindsight - can't have been
that bad. You just

wish sometimes you
could drive that way.
Your eyes

keep on distracting you
with what's ahead. With what
looks sad,

Or likely to get lost
or stall. Or dangerous
and screaming huge, now
bearing down upon it all
as you confuse the thing to do
with who to be - while obstacle
and opportunity converge,
merging to one lane, too soon
for you to thread yourself
into
by any taken pains,

or swerve.

Can't we climb up in and back
to that bright shine and slightly
cock-eyed frame? Wait, just

a tick

split-sec

It's crooked, isn't it?
Adjust, just so. Fond look,
look back. Ignore
The crash

there

there.
Remain

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