Of all things, Poetry

Well, it's been over a year since I last posted here. Strange but not entirely surprising.

What is kind of surprising is that I came home yesterday with a phrase in my head that I couldn't get out. So I decided to work it, writing it down and developing the idea a bit more. I kind of liked the sentiment of it all so I felt it was worth pursuing. I stayed up late working on it until I got it all out of my head and I'm actually pretty happy with it, and to have gone through the process to come to this:

Things I will never see

An Argentine tango
in a café of repute
Jan. 30, Savile Row
on the Apple Corps roof

An Acropolis view
in the fading dusks glow
Anders' Earthrise
from a lunar tableau

The wind carved peaks
of the Soussuvlei hills
the Manchester scene's
mad Haçienda club thrills

All of these things I will never see
but the one that truly saddens me
is to not know your face
in the new morning sun
smiling softly to me
as we greet the new dawn.

I don't normally write poetry so this came as a total surprise to me. The fact that 99% of this came out the way it did shocks the hell out of me and I'm sure it'll be another 10 years before something like this that I like comes out of me so I'm not holding my breath. I hope that, if you are reading this, that you enjoyed it. Comments would be welcomed but never anticipated.

With that I bid a fond adieu to the About a Boy blog, hopefully not for another year.

Later!