Round and round
and round and round
and round and round they go
in ever-decreasing circles
dancing their danse macabre
their increasing U-turns
speed up
end up being a balletic
Viennese waltz of death
Increasingly More of them
accomplish escape speed
fly off at a tangent
and vanish
not always for ever
regrettably
a few of them are recycled
into significantly inappropriate functions
however they kee-eee-eeeep dancing
kee-eee-eeeep spinning
The length of time in the past
they lastly disappear
up their own basic orifices,
like the legendary oozlum bird
or a tired twister
that draws them up
sediment speeding round the sky
so high
that looking down
they see far listed below
the breaking down country
they have destroyed?
Aberdeen-based Australian poet Mandy Macdonald thinks that poetry can alter the world, however is cultivating an allocation simply in case. Her work is extensively released in journals and anthologies and her pamphlet The temperature level of blue is offered from bluesalt.co.uk. 21st-century Poetry is modified by Andy Croft, e-mail [email protected].
