Image on Loan
Scott Michael Potter 1966 (Grand Rapids, MI)
Challenges and obstacles bang sleep’s cupboard doors
Open and shut, flung wide and slammed hard
That cupboard still seems bare—even of the bard
Then an image reposes
It fills one shelf, and though all else is empty, it shrinks
The rest, so all that is seen is what flutters
It is when the cupboard door gently closes
For the day has entered looking for stragglers
That the image fades amid the closeness of links
Then for the day no thoughts open that door
Until returning and thinking again
When the image tatters heartstrings once more
About this poem
This is one among many that are in the category of what I can only call prophetic, as they contain bits and pieces of my now life, “as if” I had peered into the future to write about the stranger that is the future me now. I presently use the notion of the cupboard in my mind, only it is a storage place of memories of life experiences that I had written about before Severe Retrograde Amnesia had twice annihilated every memory within my mind of first 44 years and then 12 years. more »
Written on February 18, 2022
Submitted by ScottMPotter on May 07, 2022
Modified on March 05, 2023
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| Scheme | ABB ACD XDC EXE |
|---|---|
| Closest metre | Iambic pentameter |
| Characters | 544 |
| Words | 98 |
| Stanzas | 4 |
| Stanza Lengths | 3, 3, 3, 3 |
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