In Praise of Poetry by Siobhán Mc Laughlin
Wild honey collected at dawn.
A blossom tree in a ghost estate.
Metaphorical morphine, on a drip intake.
Sweet as sugar boiled to a syrup.
As dark as coffee, double ristretto espresso
to be exact, a shot of perpetual pick-me-up.
As welcome as an unexpected green light.
As surprising as a red balloon
vying for sky in a grey city block.
As startling as a tiger's stripes up close in a zoo.
More intricately patterned than butterfly wings,
with more miniscule mechanisms than the insides of a clock.
As translucent and otherworldly as a jellyfish floating by
in a blue-lit cavernous sea.
As iridescently coloured as a hummingbird in sunlight,
a flicker of dazed delight.
Truth, to the power of ten and multiplied by
a hundred thousand heartbeats.
Siobhán Mc Laughlin is a poet and writer from Ireland. Her poems have been published in The Ekphrastic Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Poetry 24, Shift and Quince magazine and forthcoming in The Poetry Village. She is a literature graduate and creative writing facilitator. Find her on:
www.a-blog-of-ones-own.blogspot.com
www.a-poem-a-day-project.blogspot.com
Twitter: @siobhan347