Jim Daniels’ Poem
Upon reading “Skywriting” by Jim Daniels
I don’t know why
I liked that darn poem
which showed up
on my computer screen
or was it in the book
I picked up off the display
in the bookstore?
Or maybe I really didn’t like it.
It teases with possibilities
that might have happened,
skywriting or a helicopter
dropping dozens of balloons
or was it heaps of red roses?
And it had a pitiful ending,
love that didn’t last.
Yet I sat there - or was I standing?
I read all twenty three-line stanzas
then I sobbed - or was it just a sigh?