1
I like being on the edge of things,
Of the horizon, the woods, the crowd.
I like the distance the edge brings,
Feeling rain from the height of a cloud.
2
I like being on the sidelines,
Not in the thick of the fray.
I have no need of guidelines,
No cause to be in anyone’s pay.
3
I prefer to be nobody,
Not suffer the iniquity of fame.
Celebrity is to be somebody,
Everyone knows your name.
4
I am comfortable in my own company,
A rabbit snug in its own stew.
The thick of the crowd makes me grumpy,
I’d rather drink my own home brew.
5
I have developed the eye of the onlooker,
Without getting more fully involved,
I enjoy the wiles of snooker,
To arrive at a problem solved.
6
This leaves me outside looking in;
I no longer have next of kin;
My world contains no mirror.
There is nothing to inspire terror.
7
I keep myself on the edge of interiors,
Sitting alone on an empty shelf.
A good distance from my superiors,
A writer impersonating an elf.
very much freestyle but sounds fluently. . . a responsibility of a ghost. . . i like it for its pure illusiveness and alienation from reality, which is, however, a funny question to a ghost-writer (excuse me for the pun ;))). Cheers, alex
A beautiful self-reveal in a poem. I relate to your experience very well, right down to the part of having no, "next of kin." Outsiders are very good at looking in.
Ah, but Albert Camus says that "A writer's purpose is to keep civilization from destroying itself." You have a very good position from which to do it ... and perhaps you mistake an imp for an elf.
If you tend to believe romantic, passionate, masculine poetry is a thing of past eras, read "She Intrigues Me," and be swept away in the beautiful craft of a contemporary poet of love.
Selected poems from previous & forthcoming collections together with Q&R apps on each page to enable audio rendition simultaneously with the written text
First Edition Translation of Teselas by Carmen Crespo X111 César Simón Poetry Prixe 2016 Translated from Spanish by Robin Ouzman Hislop and Amparo Arrospíde
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well said
Ron