NOWHERE
I am nowhere present
nor absent anywhere
many a time had I the wish
to cease existing,
although I have never
really lived
nearby the stinging nettle is
in imperial bloom
nearby coloured airplanes
are taking off
I have not been sentenced anywhere
but I can find escape nowhere
Using a different tone, another writer can rearrange the same elements to create a poem that is very much unlike this one by Dorin. For example, here is "Halfway Down" by A. A. Milne:
ReplyDeleteHalfway down the stairs
is a stair
where i sit.
there isn't any
other stair
quite like
it.
i'm not at the bottom,
i'm not at the top;
so this is the stair
where
I always
stop.
Halfway up the stairs
Isn't up
And it isn't down.
It isn't in the nursery,
It isn't in town.
And all sorts of funny thoughts
Run round my head.
It isn't really
Anywhere!
It's somewhere else
Instead!