Poetry Everywhere Poem by Barry Middleton

poetry is everywhere
with a lost love
a lost childhood
it sees the future
to death and beyond

time is perfectly patient
it waits never restless
but poetry
does not know its span
the words are like a river

the river runs past time
and all that time creates
here grows the wild rose
there in the thicket
the flash of a tawny fox

none hurry save man
where all thought resides
where poetry records
the tilting universe
the river the rose the fox