Don Pearson's Poems for Poetry Teignmouth ✍️

(For everyone involved in Poetry Teignmouth) <br /> <br />They wait in ambush, <br />poems by writers <br />unfamiliar to you, <br />hiding with apparent innocence <br />behind their cardboard fans, <br />simply words on a page, asleep, <br />dreaming in monochrome. <br /> <br />Tempted, you scan, unsure, <br />ready to remain detached, <br />prepared to be disappointed, <br />but expectant, hopeful. <br /> <br />Suddenly you are tranfixed. <br />The emotion behind the words <br />holds you, squeezes your throat, <br />prickles your eyes <br />and bonds with you <br />like a symbiont. <br /> <br />Simply words on a page? <br />Poetry books are grimoires <br />containing secrets and spells, <br />truths whose power, once read, <br />may never be undone. <br /> <br /> <br />10th October 2013<br /><br />Don Pearson<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poems-95/