The Friday Poem on 25/03/22
We chose ‘Song’ by Martin Edwards to be this week’s Friday Poem mostly for its lovely command of tone. Honest, reflective, restrained, it walks a delicately judged line between resignation and acceptance. The language is simple but weighty. It manages to convey a certain nostalgia for the optimism of youth, a recognition of the realism that comes with age, and ultimately an understanding of our place in the greater picture.
Song
As you walk it becomes clear
that the far mountains
will never get
any nearer.
Although you started out early,
walking briskly and singing
songs about the lands
beyond the mountains.
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Through the long grasses and the cypress trees
the song continues.
Everyone has stopped
singing and is still.
