Melancholy | Snowman

Wayne Dean-Richards has shared 18 poems for us to publish during 2023. The collection is called It's a Mad World, But Funny. Eventually there will be a free, downloadable PDF of all the poems and a planned A6 compendium too. (Links to all of the poems way down the page.)

melancholy

I read an article that said a
darkly lit superhero film
was ‘melancholy’.

bollocks to that!

for me
melancholy’s
pressing the tips of your fingers
against your dead mother’s still warm cheek
and the remembered snatch
of a Frankie Laine song your old man sang
when he was still out of reach
of an ignominious end…
deep as a river
cold as midnight.

snowman

we made a snowman with
the usual carrot nose,
and twiggy arms.

not long after,
it started thawing
and our snowman fell -

backwards, like a drunk.
after which it turned cold
again. freezing his

toppled corpse for
all to see, and leaving me
to wonder…
what it meant.

© Wayne Dean-Richards

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It's A Mad World But Funny (complete) 

1. a father's advice to a son being interviewed to work on the Coventry Ring Road - 1958
   
2. a shopping list and Lowry
3. alone
4. big dog training
5. buying boxer shorts in next
6. lanyard life
7. melancholy
8. snowman
9. this house
10. fight in an art gallery
11. you cunts
12. road rage
13. different face
14. Dostoyevsky didn't have to put up with this
15. the cleaner
16. bailout
17. glue
18. are you