Habitat

Before the main event starts, the NaPoWriMo website suggested writing an ekphrastic poem – a poem inspired by or about a work of art.

Habitat

Tiny, tiny habitat
And within, a snack for a cat
A capsule of concentration
Pink tongue poking out
As you did that tricky bit
A cosmos in four corners
Dying to be explored
Life. Religion.
Food chain. Weather system.
And a carefully-cut romance
What are those two dreaming of?
Eyes on the stars
Hearts on the moon
I imagine them grinning from ear to ear
Just to be holding hands

Atoms

This was my warm-up for NaPoWriMo.

Atoms

My atoms like your atoms
I don't know how or why
It can't be cos you're gorgeous
With a twinkle in your eye
It's something more intriguing
A mystery, divine
My atoms like your atoms
And I think yours quite like mine

Perhaps, millions of years ago
Our atoms shared a part
A planetary satellite 
Or diplodocus heart
And now that old attraction
Has stirred some magic string
Atomic magnetism
Is a really funny thing

Perhaps before the universe
Began with a big bang
Our atoms were two deities
Holding holy hands
I could have been a predator
And you my favourite prey
You might have quite liked being caught
But really, who could say?

I don't know why our atoms
Are such excited things
Whenever we write letters
Or we hear someone sing
I only know my atoms
Long to be near yours
Perhaps one day they'll reunite
As furry wombat paws