Orbiting

Written for Paul Brookes' ekphrastic challenge - one poem a day in April 2021. 

The art work for this day is "Orbiting" by Kerfe Roig

 

 

Orbiting

From her viewpoint

everything looked fractured.
 

People, places, animals,

her things, her past and present.

A shattering of colours, faces

and time.

Broken vinyl that somehow

still played.

 

Repeating the same song

over and over and

over and over and

over and over

Tim Fellows 2021

I also wrote this one....

Orbiting

 

From where I sit, said the captain,

it looks like a mess, like someone

has taken a perfectly good planet

and fractured it. 

 

He closed his physical eye,

took a deep breath and opened 

his ethereal eye. He looked

again at the Earth, saw through

the blue, the greens 

and browns, saw right to the core

of things. 

 

Saw the division, the terror,

the war, the destruction. 

No contact then, said the 

Science Officer, withdrawing 

his tentacles.

 

Nah, said the captain,

I'd rather eat my own shit.  

 

Tim Fellows 2021