norman lamont

The tourist shop

I walked into a tourist shop
Where many tourists are
Funny hats and beachtowels
Beside a tourist bar

The temperature was rising
And the shop was dark and cool
A silence and a refuge
From the radio and pool.

I lifted this and fingered that
The shop girl said hello
And went back …

Sometime in November I set myself the task of writing a haiku, or at least a short poem, each morning after meditation, and before breakfast. I managed it most mornings, and it was quite interesting to look through them again.  They seemed to chart a …

My room is silent
Knocking round the house downstairs
Your October cough

Norman Lamont 7/11/07

A rainstick
Takes its time
To shower seeds
Along its spine

I wish I’d given
Ample cause
To justify
Its warm applause

All I did:
Rotate its axis
Pity I can’t
Apply the practice

To all those people
Who don’t know
How cool I am
How great …

Marc Bolan came to me
Wrapped in a magazine
And I took up being 16.

Mystics and wizards
Mist and the spells
I couldn’t get the hang

Just the cloaked figure
With his doll’s face

Saved by his ringlets
I was the acceptable face of curly hair
Previously …