Laying Down Lines
I am making these lines through the golden green of evening
tracing its glory light with the worn dark soles of my shoes.
It’s a time I have repeatedly sped through in the past
making hard lines for always somewhere else
leaving my yearning like a lost trail behind me.
Now I am lingering, laying down lines
timelines, lay lines, ends of lines
along old green lines long since axed
well past their glory days.
Tracing these parallels because you.
For you, with you, though you
have long since sped on by.
Via these lines, between these lines
I am leaving marks, laying you down
marking time
taking you
to the end of the line.
J.S.Watts
From photographs taken on: 17th April 2021, 18th April 2021, 29th May 2021 and 31st May 2021 across South Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire
Fantastic pictures, great poem. Were you inspired by the pictures to write the poem, or inspired by the poem to take the photos?
ReplyDeleteThe walks and the photographs came first (or at least, most of them). The concept of the poem started to emerge part way through the walks and was drafted the day before the final set of photos. So, those taken on 31st May were taken with the draft poem in my head.
ReplyDelete