Newly Minted Words(For Gina) Poem by Dónall Dempsey

Newly Minted Words(For Gina)

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Leave you alone

thinking you are writing a poem

you gaze into the air as if it were written there

& all you had to do
was snatch it quick

& the magic of the words
would be yours.

“Well..? ”
I enquire finally.

“Well...what? ”
a smile playing about your lips.

“Let me see.. what you’ve composed! ”

eager for
newly minted words

I snatch it to discover
it is

a shopping list for the Italian shop

but then the sounds
rigatone...salsicce

are poems
in themselves.

I chant them
to the cat

& he looks suitably
impressed.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Gina Pisapia 08 March 2008

Hee hee you'd make a poem out of anything...that'll teach ya to snatch my paper. Well, a poem did emerge but it was by you and not me. That's the last time I'll give ya my shopping list if all you're going to do with it is write a poem about it! love GinaXXX

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Dónall Dempsey

Dónall Dempsey

Curragh Camp, Co. Kildare, Eire.
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