h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

LOST TOGETHER

At the bottom as too
often happens I lost
being lost. I couldn’t
go back now I knew.
The way back, known,
the path ahead,
remembered, held
no lure.

At the bottom as too
often happens I woke
and knew that even
if I fell back
I wouldn’t dream
your voice flowing under
icy scree
I trod.

At bottom as too
often happens I knew
you couldn’t have hiked
lost long beside
my delighted not knowing
which blue lake
below pointed
home.

At the last as it had to
my pain at losing,
too, even your
way home blossomed
to joy at the horror
damp behind
craggy skies in
your eyes.


SUNSPOT

don’t look! I told myself
not blinded but not knowing
I stepped anyway and stepped again
and only then thought

I fell not badly one
boot rocked a granite plate
one knee reddened a knob below
I didn’t look I saw

the hole clear the ridge east
tear slowly cloudless gray and my eye
you knelt I stood you stood
I saw it destroy

shadows in the hair that flees your cap
it tore your shoulder neck cheek then
it was your eye
until my eye healed


LOVER LOST

blue turns white-turns
wrong turn? what turn?
meadow where
which

green lake blue take
this ledge No! take
don’t go
wait

chew watch breathe think
that chink No! drink
down stretch
step

this!-hop-this! reach
next? well-just touch
here? how?
don’t

turn look down won’t
think not don’t what
take gain
when

blue sky not
okay hop! blink
breath found
now

is this is NO!
stepdownslidedon’t
NO! fall
NO!

past? twist down bounce!
clown! bounce grab stone
what? wet?
moss

whose WHAT? fingers
ice? too WHO? fast
slide roll
can’t

is this am I
going you WHO?
NOW? die
NO!

what? what?-twist! STOPPED!
what? stopped! what? why?
think breathe
“HEEELLLLLPPP!”

Put your poems into an entry. BTW your page is a bit hard on the old eyes, add some spaces.

Alji

Thanks, I think. I'm new to this. The "entry" process seemed a bit presumptuous for an unpublished poet. Didn't come up with much searching h2g2 for others' poetry. Can you direct me? Is it possible to browse others' journals, or does one get there by searching for items that may be in them? Should the film review I just added here be an "entry" as well?

Click on this link for the poems archive A666254

Yes it should be an article, have a look at your 'Space' to see how much you have to scroll down.

You can click on any names that are underlined to see their 'Space', if you click on mine you can see what I have done with mine.

Alji