The December Selected Poet is Marc Carver

Please feel free to email Marc at:

kronsi669@yahoo.co.uk

AVIARY

I walked to the big aviary in the park
you could hear the noise of all those beautiful birds from miles away.
I walked right up to them
then as if they all hold just one voice 
they stopped singing and were perfectly quiet.
I don’t know what they saw that so scared them
there was nobody else there but me
but they didn't make a sound.

SITTING ON THE DOCK OF THE BAY

I listened to Otis on the radio
yelled out the song as people came past
must have  thought I was some kind of lunatic
but I did not care
the way I have always not cared 
even when  I was at rock bottom
some people do not get up 
but day after day
up I get like the man off the cross
nothing can stop me

A SECRET

We are all fools 
wandering around 
doing things for no real reason 
crashing off each other like snooker balls 
hoping one day we may do something of brilliance 
so everybody can say how great we are 
only to realize 
how unimportant it is to be recognized by others 
even of greatness. 
But on we go 
trying to grasp onto that passing cloud 
looking for something 
trying to find something 
but the secret is 
it is never quite what we thought it to be.

ANGEL DANCING

The woman came up to me at the party 
at which I did not have a ticket
She asked me who I was
asked if I was in insurance
no I could never do that I tell her
as I held her hand she said
you walk up and down here not talking to anybody
as if you were an angel.
And for a second I really thought it could be possible
she asked for her hand back shortly after that
then I started to dance and the night really took off