Hello again 🙂
So it came to pass: once again the generator of doom ground its cogs and presented me with a strange mix of words to play with. It took me a bit of twisting of the ol’ grey matter to figure out how ‘Lednock’, ‘IBM’ and ‘Elwy’ were going to gel together, but I managed with just over 5 minutes to spare.
Obviously I did my research outwith the 15 minute window, I’m not that quick 😉
Splatter Lednock IBM Experiment Wings Elwy Pharaoh By Chancellor
The rain did not start to splatter steadily
Until I’d almost finished marvelling at the majesty
Of Glen Lednock.
Drawn from dull conferences, and talk
Of IBM shares (and software in general) –
I was feeling free.
This experiment I’d started, oh five years ago now,
Had flexed its wings and shown me
That life was for the living.
Paradoxically, it was the dead that spoke to me most.
Whether crouched in an Elwy cave,
Tracing Neanderthal;
Or staring into Pharaoh faces, imagining the
Baking heat upon their taut skin, once –
It got me by.
It kept me sane when others rattled on about money
And gloomy predictions, ignored by the Chancellor.
History doesn’t lie…
April 19th, 2017 at 2:15 pm
Nice work.
April 19th, 2017 at 3:21 pm
Why thank you 😉
April 19th, 2017 at 4:13 pm
Another very interesting poem
April 19th, 2017 at 4:25 pm
Thanks Jane 🙂 x