The Poetry Marathon

in the house we’ve
visited many times
a different person
The china vases
are now all gone
the door in the hall
full of poetry books
the new owner wrote

“Before Darkness”

the blurry city
before darkness
just like my watercolors
drawings
in the beginning
asking me to clarify
what is actually there
at first just a faint idea
my thoughts taking
shape

Feels like September
after the rain in August
only few weeks left
we talk together
and nobody hears
what each other
says

dark night ahead
closing the day
covering all my moves
through the city
erasing my thoughts
of the future
away

dark night
blurring my image
of chatting people

dark night
erasing
all my former friends

wedding party downstairs..
i dream of peaceful nights
in my hotel room

The poem The Bookmark by Graham Swift shows doubt memories. We know about the issue of screen and false memories in Freudian terms. The poetic persona remembers only in the end that the ticket left as a bookmark in a book was put there by himself after he imagines a whole story about it.

my memories
forgotten
turn
into fiction

her red nails
on the touchscreen…
sunrise

Memories of the seaside
brought by London rain
memories of Greece
fixed by architecture
and words of ancient Greek origin
in the English language
even a newspaper is an ephsmeral
every story
every novel
every life
to Graham Swift

step by step
your hand holding mine
the train moves slowly
the landscape further
like the props for a stage play
on the corridors
same footsteps
wheeling
the handluggage
the summer heat
making you sleepy
everything moves slower
together frozen in time
like in a digital photo

Stanza 1
girls smiling
wind through their dresses
a few rising waves
a bit of dust
before the thunderstorm
taste of icecream

# Stanza 2
smell of icecream
sight of smiling
sound of thunderstorm
watching dresses
collecting dust
in front of the waves

# Stanza 3
rising waves
buying icecream
smelling dust
next to their smiling
eyes in their dresses
before the thunderstorm

# Stanza 4
after the thunderstorm
lower waves
longer dresses
more icecream
more smiling
less dust

# Stanza 5
footsteps in the dust
before the thunderstorm
after smiling
before the waves
during an icecream
tasted in sun dresses

# Stanza 6
sun dresses
beach dust
seaside icecream
during a thunderstorm
before the waves
after smiling