Potholes

Only over Africa do potholes lie in sky

like large and open vaults

ready, waiting, able,

to tempt a woman’s mind

into priceless memories.

 

But no matter land or sky

there always is a forceful power

that lifts me up and out

onto the straight confining

and dull normality

of this present life and times.

 

And how beautiful a pothole

that contains the best of times

and I’m guilty more and more

of unexpectedly

dropping in to feel again

how it was back then.

 

Mind’s playground in the sky

holds more potholes than the land

but when I’m in it’s like I’m out

from what I can’t abide ~

and so of potholes who can say

they do not aid survival?

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6 comments

  1. :)
    good one. Potholes, I’ll remember this.

    excuse me but I think you make two spelling errors on your tagline. I quote you : “…Peoms of nature, sad peoms…”

    you mean poems, right?

  2. helen howell says:

    Isn’t it amazing that one can look but not see? Thank you for pointing out that error. I didn’t type it but I should have spotted it. Thanks again.

  3. NathanKP says:

    Very nice poem. I’ve always like poetry that is centered in the middle of the page, but I have yet to try that style.

    NathanKP – http://nathankp.blogspot.com/

  4. NathanKP says:

    Very nice poem. I’ve always like poetry that is centered in the middle of the page, but I have yet to try that style.

    NathanKP – http://nathankp.blogspot.com/

  5. NathanKP says:

    Sorry to have accidentally posted twice. It was not intentional.

  6. helen howell says:

    Thank you nathankp for visiting here. I hope you’ll come back again. Don’t worry, it’s just “them there” potholes that account for the … shakes and double posts. :)

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