Remember Moses met God in a burning bush?
Today I moved two blueberry bushes in
the rain, not really the same, and yet within
the falling drops I heard his jovial patter.
His words were splashing colour everywhere,
flowing down my collar and into my socks,
a rhythmic splatter announcing, ‘LET THERE BE!’
Inspired by collecting blueberry bushes in the rain from a local allotment.
(05.06.25)
© Ben Quant 2025
Photo by Mario Mendez on Unsplash
Ingredients:
blend together
two unrelated
cuisines or musical
languages
Outcome:
a fusion dish
of novel taste
an auditory
revelation
Ingredients:
two particles
accelerated
at speed into
a forced collision
Outcome:
explosive wave
of energy
reveals sub-
atomic secrets
Ingredients:
grab unrelated
ideas and hurl
together hard
to see what happens
Outcome:
metaphorical
generation
conceives surprising
ideas and insights
Ingredients:
a man, a woman
heat up their hormones
stir DNA
and leave to sit
Outcome:
new life erupts
through pain and joy
familiar yet
distinctly different
But still…
we build
our walls
close down
the channels
shut down
surprise
take cover
behind
our slogans
fearful
of what
might be
and be
discovered
This started life as a poem about poems and metaphors for World Poetry Day, but finished up as something quite different as I combined not just this and other interests of mine whilst reflecting on a local hotel housing asylum seekers.
(23.03.23)
© Ben Quant 2023
Photo by John Legrand on Unsplash
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