Day 1: Shaun

I have been itching to get on here and start posting a poem a day ever since I found out about the idea. I'll do my best to get something almost finished up daily but, I suspect it could be a tough month. Good luck to all the local writers trying this out, I think it is a great idea to have us posting on the same page. I'll try not to be the one that lets the side down. Enough of my rambling though, here is my poem for Day One.

Penny. 

At the back of your drawer

behind a Gideon’s Bible and a pencil case

I peeled off the old Penny.

Blu Tack masks a once proud coat of arms

while stern faced Edward looks away,

revealing none of his secrets under inspection.

He is worn out, his face in anti-time

bears not one wrinkle, only thumbprint

felt out by my own hands as I pushed him back.

I cleared that drawer some time ago.

Dated and reasoned that a coin worth next to naught

Was her final witness to time once spent;

The time once lost, forever sought.