Carillon Magazine

Poetry from the magazine

Issue 19

 

A Vehicle for Thoughts

Angela Bradley (Pontefract)

 

Channel my ideas into planned reason

so that good concepts may travel,

in designed motion,

through the winding lanes of suggestion

to evolved understanding.

 

Drive the racing images of hasty judgements

from senseless conjecture.

Save me from crashing theories

that zig-zag through my impressive mind

in aimless redirection.

 

Convey my purposed vision

along straightened roads of understanding

so that logical opinions may be transported,

through interpretation,

To motored smoothness.

 

Contain my vision’s variety

in ordered compartments

allowing my racing thoughts to speed,

along indexed tunnels,

to a significant conclusion.

 

Busker Bird

Andrew G.  Wattie (Barnsley)

 

The busker bird perches on the footpath

strutting along the frets,

discordant, unstrung as a limp puppet.

Dylan will forgive the voice

blown over and over in an exhausting wind

dispersing words to the traffic's roar.

What he does on wet days, feathers

oiled by time and city grime,

hair dripping dreadlocks, no wing to tuck under,

remains the same, unchanging,

more warble than trill tremolo

strings damp flat

as he perceives an empty future.