Pantun

(Pantun is a style of poetry where two lines of connected poetry, usually 8-12 syllables, precede two further lines of similar length which appear unconnected but may have a sense of a link).

 

Plastic

Plastic consumer goods traverse the globe

in Gargantuan ocean-going containers

Gargantuan ocean-going mammals consume plastic containers

awash traversing the globe

© GS261118

 

Loss

A banknote skates haphazardly

along a rain swept gutter into a drain.

A worried child with her mother’s shopping list

searches all her pockets carefully.

© GS071018

 

Change

Outside in the burnished golden leaf fall

horse chestnut fruits shine conker brown like polished boots

Inside, bored young children sulk and misbehave

fighting with interstellar alien life-forms

© GS081018

 

Remembrance

A soldier fights with his head and his heart

his head rests in his hands, his heart pinned to his sleeve

Our memories hang in the picture gallery of the soul

colours merge, names vague, places sleep, faces watch

© GS121018