A Bluebell and some Daffs flickr photo by Duck 1966 shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)
Updated Note: the image that inspired this poem was not a Creative Commons image, so I asked permission from the photographer to share it. This link will bring you to the photograph and photographer, who worked to make the photo embeddable. I offer my gratitude to you, David. Thank you. — Kevin
Random Access Poetry: Day Six
The thing about poems
is they stop time, cold,
in its tracks —
Looking back, a poet
with pen tries to find
the lost words
they heard in the lilt of
a voice, the whisper in
the ear
now they only hear
the stalled train on tracks and
remember the flowers
Peace (along the rails),
Kevin
PS — I found the photo through the use of Alan Levine’s random search tool for Flickr