Clever

Posted on March 31, 2009 | 9 Comments

Responding to a picture:
 
 

CLEVER
 
Somewhere
in the quiet daytime
there is a tree
to the right of a broad path.

A line of rough grass
leads left to right
showing where path stops
and sky starts.

Quite clever, really.
 
–John Bailey
March 2009, Wales

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9 Responses to Clever

  1. sfmarty | March 31, 2009 at 15:15 |

    it is so nice to see your poetry again.

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  3. Niki Hawkins | March 31, 2009 at 19:39 |

    Ah, I read the poem over and over. It allowed me to feel so peaceful. I’ve bookmarked it so I can always go back to it. So contemplative.

  4. Jim | March 31, 2009 at 19:42 |

    And I think the poet is quite clever as well…

  5. Brigitte | March 31, 2009 at 20:13 |

    Quite clever indeed.Don’t know why noone has mentioned this before?! :-) Love the poem and the poet!

  6. wayne | March 31, 2009 at 20:58 |

    That is one of the paths in Memorial Park in Houston. Or at least that is the image I imagined. Thanks for the poem.

  8. lizziedripping | April 1, 2009 at 13:43 |

    And there I am sitting beneath the tree with a book, the sun squinting through the leaves , and all at peace with my world. This is what you have conjured up for me on a dreary afternoon.
    Thanks

  9. ~ Sil in Corea | April 2, 2009 at 17:45 |

    “A line of rough grass” also marks that junction atop Toedock Mountain in Korea.