The Crawling Corridors
Crawling corridors of glazed limpets
in clustered folly, cascade
a symphony blossom to tantalize
the tattered artist in a towering
squalor of lampooned puppets ablaze,
plunged in feral escapade,
a dalliance interlude of watercolor
vessels drip their fluttered meadows
for willow portraits in starry infancy
and shimmering bliss,
hounded by the giddy margins
the creaking valley - listless
for rhapsody, mutters its hollow
blessings in a saintly pattern
of glimmering sapphire -
the treasured muse in
slender desertion.
Stephen Philip Druce is a poet from Shrewsbury in the UK. He is published in the UK, the USA, Hungary, Ireland, India, Canada and South Africa. Stephen has also written for London theater plays and BBC Radio 4 Extra. Contact him on Instagram - @StephenPhilipDruce