NaPoWriMo Day 12 and it’s Saturday so I’ve started early before going out for a long walk to get some fresh air and hopefully more inspiration. Today’s poem is called Boy with Pearl Earring.
Boy with Pearl Earring
For three mornings now
you’ve passed us by
tight leather jacket;
hair perfectly set;
scarf meticulously wrapped
to frame a face,
perfectly ordinary
if it were not for the eyes
thick with black liner
and a single pearl dangling
from your left ear.
You do not see us,
the sea of grey
moving towards you
but we see you.
