Introducing a new series of poems by Julian Matthews. Julian is a writer and Pushcart-nominated poet published in The American Journal of Poetry, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Borderless Journal, Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Dream Catcher Magazine, Live Encounters Magazine, Lothlorien Poetry Journal and The New Verse News, among others. He is a mixed-race minority from Malaysia and lived in Ipoh for seven years. Currently based in Petaling Jaya, he is a media trainer and consultant for senior management of multinationals on Effective Media Relations, Social Media and Crisis Communications. He was formerly a journalist with The Star and Nikkei Business Publications Inc
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By Julian Matthews
I want to write you a poem, with you as a flower in it
But all I end up with is flour and I don’t know how to bake
Here it is in all its morning glory, chewed off more than I’ve bit
It’s more mushroom than bloom, the rhyme scheme is shiitake
I’d put sunflowers in here, but let’s face it, it’s all egg
An omelette from Ramsay’s hell with broken bits of shell
It’s more pome than poem, maybe a pome-granite
It’s a spelling bee disaster, the early buzzer from Cowell
I want to wax lyrical but all I get is candle schtick
Try to fan the flames of desire, but is that flambé or flambeau?
I want the poem to be a manly Keanu avenging Daisy in John Wick
But it’s just a wilting sequel, the blooming Stallone in another rambling Rambo
First published in “Poems From County Clare And Far Beyond: an anthology by Irish poets and their friends around the world”, available on Amazon: https://a.co/d/dYIyLRl
