We are driving North up the A9 <br />past Pitlochry and Aviemore, onto Black Isle and Ullapool, <br />Did Norman do the driving? <br />I cannot imagine Norman driving <br />Should poets drive? It doesn't seem quite write. <br /> <br />Did he stop at Inchnadamph hotel for a drink like us? <br />Or did he keep on going for his favourite Western shore? <br />Rushing onwards past Assynt Loch <br />Turning right at the council depot - and carefully negotiating the single track. <br /> <br />Were prose and poems already forming in his mind? <br />Or did he call on his friends first for dram and blether? <br />Let the words wait for tomorrow's morn - <br />when in solitude walking upon the strand, heavy fogged from the night before, <br />then who knows, did the poetry flow in Norman's head?<br /><br />Stuart Roy McIVOR<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/did-norman-do-the-driving/
