Matchstick Disco.

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Poetics: It’s Written in Stone

This evening we are invited into a special place that requires a poem to lead us in. Painted into the wall of the entrance. the song above is the inspiration for mine. where I imagine slipping into another reality to forget the wows of the week. surrounded by the works of L. S Lowry. #Lowry

Matchstick disco! 

Leave your programmed mind behind, 
Follow the footprints of all, 
The stick men, women and kids who went before, 
Small circles in the path, heading towards freedom, 
Leave your imagined human form behind, 
Ink and paint replacement body immerging, 
With each step towards the matchstick disco, 
Where sparking clogs is cool 😎, 
While playing with matchstick cats and dogs, 
Dance your blues away, leaving work behind, 
Life’s blues forgotten, swaying in  cloth caps  
Only   jovial allowed back through, 
To re-join reality, but always welcome back, 
To the land of matchstick cats and dogs. 

© 13/02/2024 rog leach









Matchstick men drawn by rog leach
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21 thoughts on “Matchstick Disco.”

  1. From the first lines to the final, Rog, you made this “matchstick” world come alive, and invitingly so, making it suddenly more “real” than our “programmed mind.” Loved your unprogrammed drawing, and especially these lines: “Life’s blues forgotten, swaying in cloth caps” — an escape sorely needed.

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  6. Your words would fit perfectly over the door to the Lowry Museum in Salford, Rog! I know that life wasn’t easy back then in the factories, but modern life with its computers and social media isn’t much better. When I read the final line I was humming the song. To semen, women and kids who went before were indeed ‘small circles in the path, heading towards freedom’.

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