Calliope gone walk about…
12 05 2008
Struggling the last couple of days to come up with anything worth putting on here. I have tried writing about the everyday but keep coming back to the same themes:
Haiku #1
star-crossed teenagers,
grew up disillusioned to
find their dreams were dust
promised happiness,
always around the corner
or living next door
I was wondering what would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived. I might be a little cynical about teenage love affairs…
Haiku #2
8.50 city bound
express straight to you - waiting
with love in your eyes
Haiku #3
car alarms ringing
distant freeway traffic hums
- suburbs never sleep
When I wake in the morning with the first plane flying over my house and the hum of the traffic on the freeway at the end of my street I am amazed by just how noisy the suburbs are at 5.00 am. Birdsong is not waking me at the moment and I miss it already.
I’m inclined to agree on the Romeo and Juliet point. If they’d lived a bit longer they may have come to regret their hasty marriage!
dreams as dust–how fitting!