The Glossy Ibis

[camus]

He’s there again, as patient
as oil, waiting for the No 4.
Plumed and glassy-eyed
and as broken as a drawer

you may never open.
Two statures in one -
Glossy Ibis/Rumpelstiltskin
yet as urbane as

Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon.
He’s a rare thing, as confident in
his beauty as in his repulsion -
A statue slowly chiselling

himself away. Don’t let it be said
that he could not mend - when
perhaps he was not broken
anyway?

[Macavity]

I googled oil number 4 Kris, but not getting the connect to patience? I do like the broken drawer simile and the beauty/repulsion confidence. The chiselling image was nice. Interesting poem.

[camus]

Thanks Mac,

No connection, was just looking for a simile for patience, that was slick and tied in to the 'The Glossy Ibis' - Oil!

It's a poem of contradictions, perhaps too many?

Cheers
Kris

[Macavity]

My kind of poem, the imagery, those contradictions. It is not boring.

[ton321]

Kris

nice one, - " as patient as oil"

But then "as broken as a drawer you'll never open"

seems a bit overkill . They are too close together for my liking

enjoyed though

Tony