Wayne Dean-Richards has shared 18 poems for us to publish during 2023. The collection is called It's a Mad World, But Funny. Eventually there will be a free, downloadable PDF of all the poems and a planned A6 compendium too. (Links to all of the poems way down the page.)
melancholy
I read an article that said a
darkly lit superhero film
was ‘melancholy’.
bollocks to that!
for me
melancholy’s
pressing the tips of your fingers
against your dead mother’s still warm cheek
and the remembered snatch
of a Frankie Laine song your old man sang
when he was still out of reach
of an ignominious end…
deep as a river
cold as midnight.
snowman
we made a snowman with
the usual carrot nose,
and twiggy arms.
not long after,
it started thawing
and our snowman fell -
backwards, like a drunk.
after which it turned cold
again. freezing his
toppled corpse for
all to see, and leaving me
to wonder…
what it meant.
© Wayne Dean-Richards
Essential Info
The 18 poems comprising Wayne Dean-Richards' IT'S A MAD WORLD BUT FUNNY series are listed below. Outsideleft will be publishing them all throughout 2023. A free downloadable PDF and a limited edition A6 Outsideleft Booklet (for neither profit or loss) of these poems will be available at the end. But not till the end. I am pretty sure that means November...
