A hugely important part of being a poet is being able to look past the ordinary. To see the fantastical in the mundane. Not long before starting my channel and for a little time during it I was SO on point with this, I felt like I was living in a mystical realm! I was seeing poems in everything and I felt like I was floating in the air! It was such a surreal experience...
Unfortunately I've had so much go on in the last two years nearly that I really have been so utterly distracted. Can YOU see poetry in your daily surroundings? If so, please share... I could do with you tales tonight!
A poem can be inspired by anything, mobile phone, mug of coffee, the words 'interest free', an advert on the radio or COVID check in at the service station door. I have written poems about all these things.
Here's one:
COVID Check-In
One after the other
Customers enter
By automatic door,
Some do COVID check in,
Mobile aligned with QR code,
Others can't be bothered,
Or fear phone tracing
Is excuse for Big Brother
To keep track
Of our every movement.
And the follow up poem:
Is COVID Check In Tracking Us?
Some say COVID check in
Is really to keep track
Of the common man,
I actually don't care
If the authorities know
I've been to Coles
Twice this week,
Had my hair cut
And consumed four lattes
Since Sunday,
Nothing to hide,
Don't need to conceal anything.