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Spoon World

Neil McLeod 1947 (Oxford)

SPOON WORLD

Spoons are freaky things,
They turn you upside down
Make you look so strange
Like Cyrano, Pinochio,
Everything's upside down.

The image the right way up,
You ask which way up?
Like the chemist's red glass phial
You turn it upside down,
It turns you inside out.

The World's a freaky place,
It's certainly upside down,
You can't get it in focus,
Rainbow, colours blurr
It's spinning round and round.

When your mind is blown
You see it the right way up
The carnivals in colour,
Pollution, shooting,
It turns you inside out.
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Submitted by NeilMcLeod on October 15, 2013

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme xaxxa bbxaC xaxdx xbdxC
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 512
Words 95
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 5
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Neil McLeod

Born in Oxford, raised in Kenya, past winner of Los Slamgeles Poetry Slam and author of abitingchance.blogspot.comand "The First Thanksgiving".Doctor McLeod is a performing poet who has recited at Highland Games, dinners and Burns Nights for the last 36 years. He is happily married, lives and works in Los Angeles,has three children, and practices as a dentist on Sunset Boulevard:http://www.drneilmcleod.com/He can be contacted by e-mail at drneilmcleod@yahoo.com and will willingly entertain requests to share his work with permission. more…

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