School report

You stood behind me

Watching, looking over my shoulder

I saw you writing

'Could have done better'!

I screwed up the paper

It missed the bin

My destination.... to write? ? or

There was more poetry in watching you

Unravelling the argument from your eyes

Burning still

So much passion lost in trying

So many paintings in the making

I make a sketch

Without true features

Passed blurring

Life is moving just below the windowsill

Shapes and bodies swimming

Pools of light ripple on the water

Barely visable

But not for want of trying

Crowds full of paintings

Shaken petals on a black wet pavement? I Pound a quote out!
[badly.......]
Words barely visable

Losing their way

Returning to nothing

I can see you watching

I watch you writing

'Could do better'

Barely visable

Not for the want of trying

I laugh and give myself an A for 'effort'

An A? What the hell does that mean?

In this world something has to make sense,

Survival after all must be 'worth surviving for! '

Not for the want of trying,

The want, of 'trying!

magnolia Turtle Bridge

'SCHOOL OF PROFOUND ISMS'

poem by Yvette Smith
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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