Showing posts with label July spillover. Show all posts
Showing posts with label July spillover. Show all posts

Saturday, July 16, 2011

The Bus - 2nd draft

The bus passes on the hour
carrying empty seats of passengers
on the road to nowhere

today I began my own journey
passing all stops along the route
in search of fellow travellers

at the cemetery gates terminus they boarded 
the aroma of spent blooms
fillinged every seat

riding familiar streets
I look for my image in windows
staring that stare back at empty seats
unseeing, unknowing 


such is the destiny of the travellers restless
on who board the Flying Dutchman omnibus
doomed to travel forever, unseen
of the streets

Monday, July 11, 2011

The bus - 1st draft

Small stones I have written as part of the July challenge http://aros-merlene.blogspot.com/ and comments from others have led to the creation of this poem.


The bus passes on the hour
carrying empty seats
of passengers on the road to nowhere

today I began my own journey
passing all stops along the route
in search of fellow travellers

at the cemetery terminus they boarded
the aroma of spent blooms
filling every seat

riding familiar streets
I look for my image in windows
staring back at empty seats

such is the destiny of the restless
on the Flying Dutchman omnibus
doomed to travel forever, unseen