Newsprint

[TheFifthElement]

Newsprint

We all have our own way of reading.
The pattern observed in
newsprint, bold headlines.
Men start at the back
with the sports pages,
aching with memories
of treacherous knees,
moving backwards.
Women search
with pinched expressions
for stories of lost children,
stolen hearts,
flicking pages hopeful
that they will find them
hiding in the personal ad’s
on page 43.
Sometimes people meet
amongst the TV guide.
7:30 Coronation Street,
secret touch,
diverted eyes.

[firefangled]

Newsprint

We all have our own way of reading.
The pattern observed in
newsprint, bold headlines.
Men start at the back
with the sports pages,
aching with memories
of treacherous knees,
moving backwards.
Women search
with pinched expressions
for stories of lost children,
stolen hearts,
flicking pages hopeful
that they will find them
hiding in the personal ad’s
on page 43.
Sometimes people meet
amongst the TV guide.
7:30 Coronation Street,
secret touch,
diverted eyes.





Your powers of imagination and observation are briliant. The pace of this is also very well done. It is important to keep a story going with a balance of waiting and revealing, even in a short poem. This was done so well.

[TheFifthElement]

Your powers of imagination and observation are briliant. The pace of this is also very well done. It is important to keep a story going with a balance of waiting and revealing, even in a short poem. This was done so well.

Thank you firefangled. I've had a very long and tiresome journey home tonight. The lady sat next to me was reading the paper, as many people do, to pass the time. I did this (I think I got the better deal ;) ).

[dibyendra]

You have really a great imagination Fifth as firefangled gave her point of view. I found the following lines nicely presented :


Men start at the back
with the sports pages,
aching with memories
of treacherous knees,
moving backwards.
Women search
with pinched expressions
for stories of lost children,
stolen hearts,
flicking pages hopeful
that they will find them
hiding in the personal ad’s
on page 43.

Keep up your good work Ffith. :thumbs_up

[TheFifthElement]

Thanks dibyendra, I'm glad you liked it :)

[PrinceMyshkin]

I felt as if you had uncovered my dirty secret (or one of them anyway) when you referred to men turning to the sports pages first. In Vancouver, when I'd receive the Sunday NY Times at something like 6 am, I thrilled at being a vicarious New Yorker. I'd rush off with it to a cafe where I always turned to the sport section first.. but only because that was where there were reviews of new cars and in my belated adolescent way, I was always lusting after a sportier one.

But your poem as a whole has your characteristically delicate touch plus the intriguing mystery of the reference to Coronation Street. Long live poems that end by leaving - or compelling - us to wonder...

[TheFifthElement]

I felt as if you had uncovered my dirty secret (or one of them anyway) when you referred to men turning to the sports pages first.

:lol:

Jerry, all men turn to the sports pages first ;)