Wednesday, 30 September 2026

Summer eventually

There was a question about a poem
I'd never read before
which kept using the word
gentian, a word I'd never
heard but which had to be a flower

My mind wasn't really
fully focused

Again and again with this
gentian; it quite began to grate
       but I couldn't let this affect
       my confused and sloppy answer

       Was it gentian even with a hard
       or soft gee - gestapo or gentle

       Searching for the symbolism
       with burnt out torch light

If I hurried I could turn over
the paper walk to the bar and 
     be first in line for 
     the pint and a pizza deal

                  What days
         not of blue darkness and despair

     Although there were some times
we slipped down the stairs



Bavarian gentians


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