Poem
Ian Pindar
Ashes
Ashes
Ashes
are bodies in disguisemixing sighs and
tears in a lost garden.
An air of importance
permeates these
cosmonauts of
compost,
which the pomp of sky and stars
ignores.
Foolish men
inhabit their bodies like
metaphors.
© 2010, Ian Pindar
From: Emporium
Publisher: Carcanet, Manchester
From: Emporium
Publisher: Carcanet, Manchester
Ian Pindar
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1970)
Ian Pindar was born in London and lives in Oxfordshire. His first collection of poetry, Emporium, will be published by Carcanet in 2011, and his second collection, Constellations, in 2012. Pindar is an active writer, contributing poetry and reviews to many of the UK’s notable broadsheet and poetry magazines. Last year he was awarded the Arthur Welton Award by the Society of Authors to assist to...
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Ashes
are bodies in disguisemixing sighs and
tears in a lost garden.
An air of importance
permeates these
cosmonauts of
compost,
which the pomp of sky and stars
ignores.
Foolish men
inhabit their bodies like
metaphors.
From: Emporium
Ashes
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