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a poem about Meral and me

Posted by littleditty on February 29, 2008 - 18:04
from the ABC set Meral and Dafny

Meral comes, cocks her head, says
"Are you alright?" perhaps, and I say
"Are you alright? Want some food?"
and may be she says "Der, of course..."
so I say "How's Daf?
Are you looking after your family?"
and she gives me a look - tells quite a story,
then asks me softly about everything that has happened
up until this very moment, and I say,
"I'm trying Meral, I really am..."
and I give her a look -
"Tell it to the birds..." she says,
"...tell it to the birds..."

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Comments

Sooz006 | March 1, 2008 - 16:22

Hhmm, so is Meral a bird, or does she just have a birdlike quality? I'm too thick for this poetry lark. Liked it though, it feels very structured, is it a particular breed of poem? What made me wonder was the repetition of the look line and the rep of the tell it to the birds ... which would make it damned clever because the repetition is almost lost and very niftily disguised

DavidK | March 2, 2008 - 09:00

Fascinating. I need some clues though to unravel it. If it can be!

littleditty | March 2, 2008 - 14:02

AH HAH! Not telling - thanks for your comments -there are lots of these and i'm wondering what to do with them at the mo... Sooz, it's not a lark! Doc Do Little says i may be too rebellious for breeds of poems -i have sonnets to write and i keep 'forgetting' to begin...thanks for reading :o)