collage of poems

these poems im putting down are not written by me. all these poems are my favourites. this is also to help me for my english exam preparation. =D

PENANCE
time to go back and read it all again,
whitting out the words you understand
till nothing else is visible but this:

shamefaced; gospel; predent; inexact;
patrimony; silence; coup d'etat

time to refuse your fifteen minutes of fame,
the prize you've already won, but can never accept,
the small-print on the deed, the no-claims bonus

out in the dark, in the cold, in a glimmer of snow,
something you never expected returns to bear witness:
a shadow; a phantom; your double; or something else

that looks at you, or world, if you were there
come to unravel the ghost of a burnt-out fire,
and raking through clinker and ash, to recover a heartbeat

*i like the way John Burnside ended this poem. it ends with a mysterious feel and a question mark*

I WATCH THE STARS GO OUT
perhaps love
is a view of stars
through the telescope of years
now aged,
no longer uncommitted
in chosen places,
nor fearful
of that strident moment
when light explodes
into a million shards of heart.

*i like poems that dont have people in it. and it describes feelings through the world around us. Felix Chong described love and heartbreaks through the stars, and the view of the stars from telescopes*

(title unknown)
morning minnowing
fishing in the afternoon
so the day was spent

three quarters buried
in the blue sand of the sky
late afternoon moon

outside the window
a walk went by its way
to the bay all day

two old mooring stakes
wait for their long vanished boat
to tie up again

*this poem depicks the scene of the sea, casualty, a normal day. though i've read it since the beginning of the year, i still dont understand what feeling the poet is trying to tell through this poem*