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Friday, May 15, 2026

George Anderson- words


words

How beautiful  how refreshing 

it is one day  to wake up

without any  poetic notions, or impulses;

simply to let  life be

without pretence without ambition-

without words

 

to simply watch the cloudless sky

to feel the head wind on the shore

to silently contemplate 

that thin blue line where sea meets sky

 

you pedal  down the track

without any thought of reducing it all to words,

to a smattering of images or symbols

 

but as you get off your bike

& wordlessly focus on the sea-

it swoops down upon you, unexpected

from somewhere- the words soiling you,

seeping out of you    once again






'words' (2002) first published in 'Mozzie- literary magazine.

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