REVISED

A photo composed as most pros would teach:
figure and ground-you're alive on that beach;
inside floods the grief that drowns with no sound-
no figure now-just ground, the ground, the ground...


A photo composed as most pros would teach:
figure and ground-you're alive on that beach;
inside floods the grief that drowns with no sound-
no figure now- just ground, the ground, the ground...

A photo composed like the pros would teach:
figure and ground-the late you on the beach;
but in me screams the cry without sound-
for now the world is just ground, just ground....


A photo composed the way pros would teach:
figure, surround - the late you, and the beach;
inside screams the thought I’m shouting, no sound -
now nothing stands in the heart of that ground....



A photo composed like the pros would teach:
figure and ground-the late you on the beach;
inside screams the cry not shouted by sound-
now nothing stands in the centre of ground...




A photo composed like the pros would teach:
figure and ground-the late you on the beach;
but in me screams the cry without a sound-
for now the world's just ground, the ground, the ground....




The wall holds your picture just out of reach.
There's figure and ground-for you're on the beach;
but inside me cries a scream without sound-
for now the world's just ground, the ground, the ground!

Glenn Bagshaw

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-old-picture/