..and yet it is also intended to be a metaphorical poem: the swans represent “the beautiful people”. “Going into the sunset” in poetry is quite often used to represent someone dying or passing away and here the male swan (a famous person) dies leaving his wife behind amongst the ‘drab ducks’ of the paparazzi, press and fans who feel like they can comment on the beautiful swan’s situation in some same way as she might.

Also, if you’ve even seen a Zen buddhist gravel garden you’d understand the comparison between that and the “ripples of peace” in the poem.

I know it looks like I write simple stuff…but I rarely do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_rock_garden

At school, in my teen years, I used to write with a blue pen on odd numbered days and black one even numbered days but I don’t remember doing it with anything other than my write hand….