The Poetry of Richard Sansom
Published by The British Sansom Society
Connections
Connections

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Rocks have always been beautiful especially the rocks
when you managed to break them and inside
there were layers of blue valleys and star webs.

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But there were those that had been
thrown at you and they were cursed
but even those after resting under the hedge row
for several days and got coated with time
they became different and yours and beautiful too
even the ones that had been thrown at you.

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Imagine having a three billion year old rock
thrown at your head
all the connections and strange metaphors
that can grow out of that event.
They have to be stranger than black holes and quasars
and make a new meaning out of the Big Bang.

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How about the Little Bang
when it hits you on the cheek
or in the eye and the person who threw it
gets afraid and runs home
and hides under the bed
and you don't see them for a few days
and by then the mothers have talked?

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