David Green

David Green (Books) is the imprint under which I publish booklets of my own poems, or did. The 'Collected Poems' are now available as a pdf. The website is now what it has become. It keeps me out of more trouble than it gets me into. I hope you find at least some of it worthwhile.

Sunday 18 November 2012

World Of Its Own

World Of Its Own

A team of Scientists at the University of Montreal research facility in conjunction with European colleagues and data provided by the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope  and the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope has discovered a rogue planet in the Milky Way Galaxy.


 
It turns and turns in search of a sunrise,
something it’s dreamed of but has never seen.
The landscapes are dark and extravagant 
 
but, like a lover who’s now bored with love,
they go to waste ashamed of what they think
and also what they think they might have been. 
 
There are no memories of orbits, moons,
although everything came from somewhere once
and so there might have been a life to write 
 
if ever any evidence were found
of seasons, apogees or sibling worlds.
But, for the time being (if time occurs 
 
where there’s no other thing to fix it by),
it is perfect, ripping through the painless
wild, lost but not the least bit concerned.