P.D.A By Ray Morgan

This week I am honoured to guest a very special, talented British poet, Ray Morgan.

For someone of such tender years she has already performed her Poetry on Colin Murray's Spoken Word Surgery on BBC Radio 1, worked with Apples and Snakes which is the UK's leading performance poetry organisation, and been published in Inkspill Magazine. Ray is also the creative producer for Sundown Arts, a voluntary run arts organisation that tours and promotes the spoken word.

I first came across her work when I read the following piece, P.D.A; a very creative poem expressing elements of life on the London Underground.

P.D.A.

A Poem By Ray Morgan

There is a cello on the Jubilee line.

He is standing tall,

chest puffed out,

all smooth and smarmy,

all Nigel Havers, all

Yes,

I'm a cello.

A small child looks up with saucer eyes

at the petite woman holding

him.

She caresses his smooth,

black

Batman-chested

case of a body,

all muscles and brawn.

People look away,

stare into their paperbacks,

look intently at their fingernails

on the grimy handrails

or notice themselves in the

opposite windows.

The cello woman sways,

her floral dress flutters flirtily,

she sways

and gives her body into him.

Above the clatter and din

of the 8.48 from Canning Town

you'd swear you could hear the

low

grumbling

twang

of his strings.

Ray Morgan C 2010

For more poetry by this remarkable writer please visit her blog at raypoetry.

Thanks Ray for your contribution and support of One Stop Poetry. I look forward to seeing you all again at One Shot Wednesday

cheers

Pete