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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?

 

- Wilda Morris