a poem about Meral and me

By littleditty

Fri, 29 Feb 2008
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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 softly about everything that has happened
up until this very moment, and I say,
"I'm trying Meral, I really am.."
and give her a look -
"Tell it to the birds.." she says,
"..tell it to the birds.."

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Poem
Meral and Dafny
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Comments

Submitted by Sooz006 on
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

 

Submitted by DavidK on
Fascinating. I need some clues though to unravel it. If it can be!

Submitted by littleditty on
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)