Poetry-family Poems

Question 1

Climbing my grandfather

Answer 1

• climbing has its dangers
• I change direction
• I place my feet at the scare
• dusty and cracked
• like warm ice
• slow pulse of his good heart
• drinking from teeth to teeth

Question 2

Follower

Answer 2

• I wanted to grow up and plough
• shoulders globed
• Hobb nailed wake
• I ride on his back
• I was a nuisance
• tripping falling
• now it’s you who is stumbling and will not go away

Question 3

Mother any distance

Answer 3

• acres of the floor
• you at the zero end
• I space walk
• last 100th of an inch
• anchor.kite
• endless sky
• to fall or fly

Question 4

Before u were mine

Answer 4

• Marilyn
• I knew you would dance like that
• a ballroom with a thousand eyes
• cha,cha,cha you would teach me the moves
• clear as scent
• ghost still clatters

Question 5

Walking away

Answer 5

• 18 years ago almost to the day
• touch line new ruled
• like a satellite wrenched from its orbit
• go along could perfectly show
• half fledged thing
• who finds no path where the path should be

Question 6

Letters from Yorkshire

Answer 6

• pouring air and light into an envelope
• icy miles
• word of thy other world
• heart full of headlines
• knuckles singing
• planting potatoes
• seeing the seasons turning

Question 7

Eden rock

Answer 7

• same suit
• hp bottle
• her hair the colour of wheat
• somewhere beyond Eden rock
• crossing isn’t as hard as it might seem
• I hadn’t thought it would be like this