Celebrating Poets – Alan

When life gets tough, look towards a poem! I hope you are enjoying my selection of favourite poets this Poetry Month. I have had a great time revisiting a lot of my well-loved pages. My choice for today is a poem that is at once fun and deep, with layers of meaning if you care to look.

Alan… Meet this fabulous poet on his page on Twitter for more wonderful poetry.

Avant

This girl in college
asked if she could sketch me,
& because I believed she’d become famous
& I was in love with her legs,
I agreed.

She drew me with too long a nose.

But my nose has grown, & how
could she have known in crosshatched shadows that
I’d ever reach this age.

— Alan, Words and Music (@alanlovespoetry) April 17, 2019