Monday morning early
Sunday evening late
A tram goes by, outbound
taking the late drinkers
the restless moviegoers
or the blossoms of girls with their escorts
home
sleep
The conductor on the final run
standing there in his slippers
facing the track
The ladies sit at cafe tables in twos
An old man sits
reading at a table alone
the new day’s news
letting his beer get warm
letting the sky be enough ,
Winter 1956-57
Malaga .
[September 1956/1960]
Copyright ©: Paul Blackburn
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Letters to the Otherworld
- The Double Vision Of Michael Robartes by William Butler Yeats
- Sonnet (XII) : O Buddha ! I do wish to follow your golden middle path by Neelam Sinha
- Владимир Высоцкий – Шляпник
- Эмиль Верхарн – Золото
- Year’s End by Marilyn Hacker
- Алексей Толстой – То было раннею весной
- A Tree Song by Rudyard Kipling
- Robert Burns: Here’s His Health In Water :
- Epitaph On the Lady Mary Villiers by Thomas Carew
- In The Train by Sara Teasdale
- Crusaders by William Wordsworth
- Day by William Morris
- The Pleäce A Teäle’s A-Twold O’ by William Barnes
- To Songs At the Marriage Of The Lord Fauconberg And The Lady Mary Cromwell poem – Andrew Marvell poems
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