Community Poem #1 - Brick Bar

Community poem guidelines:

• One line created by one member of the community
• The next writer may not see the previous writer's line, use a cover-up card
• Intended for genuine, original thought
• Improvisation encouraged

Once poem is completed:

• compile lines and revise accordingly for flow and feeling
• create your own line breaks for effect and form
• keep intact the original spirit of community interaction
• refrain from making any additions other than suitable/substitutable prepositions

The following community poem was created at Brick bar in the Blue Star Arts complex:

Community Poem #1

In the resting of nests,
the great white heron bathes
in the waves
of the mallard's call

of pitter-pattered maelstroms,
turn-arounds and right wrongs,

and when the night owl's
tempered sugar skull
begins to rot,
confusion rides like a circle round.

Pick up the telphone
when the actor
from across the aisle
dials your number,

because lively dreams are not at night,

in the meantime
a wrench can fix things.

One-two-three, two-two-three, three-three-three,
we danced by the dim light
of candled chandeliers.