A man on stilts at the entrance the Liverpool Garden Festival.
© Copyright Gerald England.
NATIONAL POETRY CONVENTION READING,
FESTIVAL GARDENS, LIVERPOOL,
26th MAY 1985.
(Written and performed at the event)
Two score of poets
under China-painted corrugated roof
bounce words into the Mersey wind
As the waterfall bounces off rocks
into a pebble-shored lake
so we listen,
absorbing liquidity of meaning
While children throw stones into the water
expecting only splashes
we throw our words at you
and await the ripples
© GERALD ENGLAND
Composed: Liverpool, 26th May 1985
Publications
1985 The Old Police Station (UK)
1994 Tree Trunk (USA)
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