REVISED <br /> <br />A photo composed as most pros would teach: <br />figure and ground-you're alive on that beach; <br />inside floods the grief that drowns with no sound- <br />no figure now-just ground, the ground, the ground... <br /> <br /> <br />A photo composed as most pros would teach: <br />figure and ground-you're alive on that beach; <br />inside floods the grief that drowns with no sound- <br />no figure now- just ground, the ground, the ground... <br /> <br />A photo composed like the pros would teach: <br />figure and ground-the late you on the beach; <br />but in me screams the cry without sound- <br />for now the world is just ground, just ground.... <br /> <br /> <br />A photo composed the way pros would teach: <br />figure, surround - the late you, and the beach; <br />inside screams the thought I’m shouting, no sound - <br />now nothing stands in the heart of that ground.... <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />A photo composed like the pros would teach: <br />figure and ground-the late you on the beach; <br />inside screams the cry not shouted by sound- <br />now nothing stands in the centre of ground... <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />A photo composed like the pros would teach: <br />figure and ground-the late you on the beach; <br />but in me screams the cry without a sound- <br />for now the world's just ground, the ground, the ground.... <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />The wall holds your picture just out of reach. <br />There's figure and ground-for you're on the beach; <br />but inside me cries a scream without sound- <br />for now the world's just ground, the ground, the ground!<br /><br />Glenn Bagshaw<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-old-picture/
