Wave to the Lady in the Electric Wheelchair
written by: Jan Sargeant
watch that space between the words
see the length of minutes becoming hours
turning into days, and when you can no longer hear the
pause in the rhythm of the verse, you can always go back
and rehearse what it was you wanted to say
there was a silent note dropped from a sky
bruised by rumbling clouds of rancour,
their menace pointed through trembling fingers,
while they smile deception through whitened teeth
save me a portion of that crumbling edifice
the one that shivers in its petridish of humility
to paint me into a corner with acrylic chains
splashed on a canvas that remains blank
SEPTEMBER 2022 AUTHOR OF THE MONTH at Spillwords.com
Jan Sargeant has written for many years but only since retirement in 2016 has she had the time and opportunity to write poetry and novels rather than academic papers. “Still dancing,” an anthology of her poetry, was published three months ago with all profits going to Parkinson’s research. Her first novel, “Alan’s Lesswilling Chronicles” is a comedy, published in August 2023. She is working on the next part of this series but says she is sidetracked by the poetry she feels compelled to write. She lives in a conservation village with a lake near the Yorkshire Sculpture Park with her husband, three cats and Banksy, their small dog.
Latest posts by Jan Sargeant (see all)
- Wave to the Lady in the Electric Wheelchair - June 16, 2025
- One Blade of Grass - March 15, 2025
- Looking Back - November 16, 2024
