‘Quickly’ – what does it conjure for you?
This word led us to delve into new territory with our expression. We each used the word or the meaning of the word differently. It once again drew out themes that related to life. It had us explore feelings about things, phenomena and way of life. It’s amazing the power of a word.
We hope you enjoy our poems this week.
Feel free to comment or pass on for others to experience these short journeys.
The next week’s word is ‘naked’
Hope to see you there.
We set off for our walk and talk
Always preceded by our coffee treat
Flat white for me in a take-away cup
Double cappuccino or macchiato for my mate
The wind is gusting from the west
Bringing rain, we quickly get wet
Scrambling under the seaside canopy
We seek protection from the threat
Soon to settle into our weekly ritual
Our Sunday morning catch-up chats
This fickle spring weather springs another surprise
The sun decides to peek out from the flying clouds
So we set out again for our walk and talk
Not too long after setting off
My mate calls for a toilet stop
He reappears and beckons to me
As I approach I see his pallor has paled
A concerned anxious look upon his face
He asks me –Are you squeamish?-
As he turns and sits down on a bench
As I sit beside him I say I’m not
He offers his arm to me –take my pulse-
I take his wrist and let my fingers search
His skin is soft to my touch, his pulse beats
Slow fast slow it stops dead
It starts strong again
Slow fast slow it stops dead
It repeats its cycle once again
When I speak he agrees
He must go to emergency
He leaves immediately
I’m home when he texts he’s arrived
I don’t hear again for quite awhile
He’s been released and is heading home
He doesn’t share with me any facts
I sit and wonder what I should do
So we can resume our weekly catch-up chats
It seems all I can do is await his next text
To let me know when we’ll meet next
PJR 21.11.2022
To do something quickly
Is it more haste less speed
Or a myth built on greed?
Let me explain…
How do we know it is quick?
Do we compare it with a record?
Or a someone’s time to move toward?
Let me explain…
Is a 100 words per minute typing quickly?
Well, I can achieve typing that dense
However, it would not make a lot of sense
Let me explain…
If I run quickly past someone, am I faster?
I mean it may not be ‘quickly’ if they are walking
Or if on their phone they are talking
Let me explain…
Is eating quickly, finishing a plate before someone else?
I may have had less, I may be in a rush, the other person may be savouring
All possibilities to be weighed before favouring
Let me explain…
If you have to move quickly to fly
How come a passenger plane coming into land looks so slow
And a swallow being passed by that plane appears fast as it dives low?
Let me explain…
Quickly as an adverb
Can be misleading
Or can be relative
To a sedative
Or compared to another
Place, time, person
However if compared to a benchmark
It may look a bit stark
(NRS)
What is it?
That feeling of needing to get there
Where’s there?
Travelling through traffic lights
Before they turn red
Getting home
In time for the show
Gulping food down
Without chewing it around
Fitting in more
Such a flaw
Crossing off the list
Never getting the gist
Another milestone
With many a loan
Reaching the next age
Entering another stage
Walking past dreams
Entertained by memes
Searching outside
For a faster ride
In the next space
Of the life race
Moving ‘quickly’
Through moments, days, and years
No
time
to
slow
down
To
face
the
deep
fears
TLaB 21st November 22