POETRY KITe ANTHOLOGY

Keep On Keeping On

Pass through the portal, the passage, the doorway,
the alley, the wormhole, the window, the chink,
the keyhole, the skylight, the gateway, the tunnel,
the pinhole that's forced in the butterfly's back,
the crack in the rock-face, the cave-mouth, the well-mouth,
the trapdoor, the hatchway, the fanlight, the frame,
the eye of the needle, eye of the hurricane,
the hole in the ear where an earring's just been.

But remember Orpheus, remember Eurydice,
remember Lot and remember Lot's wife,
keep an eye on the light at the end of the dark
and just keep keeping on and it might be alright.

Slip through the eyelet, the loop of the shoelace,
the hole in the Polo, the witch-stone, the ring,
the paper-chain circlet, the ring of red roses,
the thumb and fore-finger of a diver's 'okay',
the hole in the pocket, the wallet, the handbag,
the hole in the bucket, the doughnut's one eye,
dart down the mouse-hole, the plughole, the pipeline,
through porthole or portico, triumphal archway.

But remember Orpheus, remember Eurydice,
remember Lot and remember Lot's wife,
keep an eye on the light at the end of the dark
and just keep keeping on and it might be alright.
Loop-the-loop smoke ring blown from a mouth-hole
and dive through the hoop (avoiding the flames),
go on through the silence that lives between words,
go on through the dark that's the gap between days,
live through the blink that cuts this from that moment,
and live through the adverts that break up the shows.
Pass through all intervals, set changes, quick changes,
house moves, bereavements and chapters of books.

But remember Orpheus, remember Eurydice,
remember Lot and remember Lot's wife,
keep an eye on the light at the end of all tunnels
and just keep keeping on and it might be alright.


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