Just a Moment

Just a moment from seven years ago. I caught the walker on a Wiltshire hillside outlined against the sky. Are they composing a pocket book of poetry, inspired by the astonishing view. Or are they heads down, fiddling with their iphone like most people these days?


I wander lonely as a cloud
I feel the peace that silence brings.
Distanced from the madding crowd:
When all at once an iPhone rings..

It speaks of "recent accident"
I don't recall, I feel no pain.
But then I am reminded of -
my long lost compensation claim...





(No it can't be an iphone, it hadn't been invented then. Let's imagine it was a book of poetry shall we..)

Comments

  1. Shenstone16 July 2011 at 11:56

    "It can't be an iphone, it hadn't been invented then"

    Not far away from it though ... "Development of the iPhone began in 2005" according to them in the Wiki world

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