Thursday, August 1, 2013

Jackasses

Jackasses move the
world

in saddles rupturing
skin

oozing splendid red
blood

down thin steadfast
legs

(P.S. This is in response to promts at 3WW (Jackass, Rupture, Splendid) and also at Poets United - Verse First where the notion was The Red Wheelbarrow a beautiful poem by William Carlos Williams. Take a look. Keeping things simple is most complicated.

                                                          so much depends
                                                           upon


                                                           a red wheel
                                                           barrow


                                                           glazed with rain
                                                           water


                                                           beside the white
                                                           chickens
)

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

That does seem to be the case! Very well done =)

Unknown said...

beautiful & quite deep.

Sheilagh Lee said...

sadly this is true

kelvin s.m. said...

...could be fun... could be painful... smiles...

Walt Wojtanik said...

The key was the simplicity. The result is merely excellent!

TCPC said...

oh! well said!

Vaishali Jain said...

"oozing splendid red
blood"

does sound splendid. :D