tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-46840951613045442542023-11-15T14:18:33.840+00:00this old bank of sandweekly poem feed. toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.comBlogger45125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-35833956390066978902018-07-29T09:05:00.000+01:002018-07-29T09:06:38.469+01:00Green D. H. Lawrence<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-40641856566055164872018-06-07T09:54:00.000+01:002018-06-07T09:54:04.411+01:00CALMLY WE WALK THROUGH THIS APRIL’S DAY by Delmore Schwartz<br />
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toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-56557417571989026442012-07-08T18:11:00.004+01:002012-07-08T18:11:59.106+01:00Summer breakThis Old Bank of Sand is going on holiday and will be back after the summer.<br />
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<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The rain of a night and a day and a night</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Stops at the light</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of this pale choked day. The peering sun</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sees what has been done.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The road under the trees has a border new</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">of purple hue</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Inside the border of bright thin grass:</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For all that has</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Been left by November of leaves is torn</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From hazel and thorn</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And the greater trees. Throughout the copse</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">No dead leaf drops</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On grey grass, green moss, burnt-orange fern,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the wind's return:</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The leaflets out of the ash-tree shed</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Are thinly spread</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the road, like little black fish, inlaid,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As if they played.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What hangs from the myriad branches down there</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So hard and bare</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is twelve yellow apples lovely to see</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On one crab-tree.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And on each twig of every tree in the dell</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Uncountable</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Crystals both dark and bright of the the rain</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That begins again. </span></span><br /><br />toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-21780548920254189302012-07-02T10:29:00.002+01:002012-07-02T10:29:51.546+01:00A COMPANY OF FRIENDS by Elizabeth Jennings<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />We were all friends that night and sitting round <br />A lateish dinner. Candles lit us and <br />Shyness disappeared. Some golden ground <br />Surely held us. We could understand <br />Love's mishaps, teenage children and the sound <br />Of their troubles. Here, <br />Close to a river and a city where <br />Learning's been current long, you could accept <br />Its implications. Last night we could share <br />The worth of art and promises well kept <br />Until that hour. Here was a world of care <br />And I think we all slept <br />Better for our words of joy and grief. <br />We ate, we drank, ideas seemed to come <br />So easily. Here was abundant life <br />And grace shone like a happy coming home. <br />We did not notice that the time was brief <br />As every candle flame. <br />We gave time back to one another as <br />We shook warm hands and called a clear Good Night. <br />Now it's last night's tomorrow and I pass <br />That feast like film before my eyes and light <br />My long room with that silver and that glass <br />And glory in the sight.<br /></span>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-60683887005455703972012-06-24T09:30:00.000+01:002012-06-24T09:30:00.162+01:00ON TIME FOR ONCE by Brian Patten<span style="font-size: small;"></span><br />
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The stream<br />Runs softly yet drowns the Past,<br />The dark-lit stream has drowned the Future and the Past.<br /><br />No traveller has rest more blest<br />Than this moment brief between<br />Two lives, when the Night's first lights<br />And shades hide what has never been,<br />Things goodlier, lovelier, dearer, than will be or have been. </span>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-89117872050442263362012-06-10T11:03:00.003+01:002012-06-10T11:03:45.529+01:00Jodrell Bank by Patric Dickinson<br /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who were they, what lonely men</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Imposed on the fact of night</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The fiction of constellations</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And made commensurable</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The distances between</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Themselves, their loves, and their doubt</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of governments and nations?</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Who made the dark stable</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When the light was not? Now</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We receive the blind codes</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of spaces beyond the span</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Of our myths, and a long dead star</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">May only echo how</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There are no loves nor gods</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Men can invent to explain</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How lonely all men are.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" />toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-29555997053760738402012-06-03T10:03:00.003+01:002012-06-03T10:03:29.274+01:00THE OLYMPIC GIRL by John Betjeman<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The sort of girl I like to see</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Smiles down from her great height at me.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">She stands in strong, athletic pose</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And wrinkles her retroussé nose.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Is it distaste that makes her frown,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So furious and freckled, down</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On an unhealthy worm like me?</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Or am I what she likes to see?</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I do not know, though much I care,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">xxxxxxxx…..would I were</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(Forgive me, shade of Rupert Brooke)</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">An object fit to claim her look.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Oh! would I were her racket press'd</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With hard excitement to her breast</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And swished into the sunlit air</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Arm-high above her tousled hair,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And banged against the bounding ball</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Oh! Plung!" my tauten'd strings would call,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Oh! Plung! my darling, break my strings</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For you I will do brilliant things."</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And when the match is over, I</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Would flop beside you, hear you sigh;</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And then with what supreme caress,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You'd tuck me up into my press.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Fair tigress of the tennis courts,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So short in sleeve and strong in shorts,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Little, alas, to you I mean,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For I am bald and old and green.</span></span>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-494657197399207542012-05-27T11:23:00.000+01:002012-05-27T11:23:00.074+01:00Late Fragment – Raymond Carver<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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To call myself beloved, to feel myself <br />
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poem says what was very important to him in his life – not wealth, or
fame not even health, but to be beloved. I am extremely fortunate that I
love and am beloved.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-23735157047589587102012-05-20T11:21:00.000+01:002012-05-20T11:21:00.254+01:00Song – William Wordsworth<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
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She dwelt among the untrodden ways<br />
Beside the springs of Dove,<br />
A Maid whom there were none to praise<br />
And very few to love.<br />
A Violet by a mossy stone<br />
Half-hidden from the Eye!<br />
- Fair, as a star when only one<br />
Is shining in the sky!<br />
She lived unknown, and few could know<br />
When Lucy ceased to be;<br />
But she is in her Grave, and Oh!<br />
The difference to me.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our guest editor writes: </span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This poem is very simple but very powerful. It was especially important
to me after the death of a much beloved member of our family. She may
not have been very important to many people, may not even have been
really noticed, but when she was not there anymore – Oh! The difference
to my wife and me.</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-70093455330551057492012-05-13T11:20:00.000+01:002012-05-13T11:20:00.887+01:00Sonnet 29 – William Shakespeare<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
I must include something by William Shakespeare in my choice. This sonnet I find particularly moving. Sometimes, when I am feeling low, the last five lines become especially true and important.</div>
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<br />When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,<br />I all alone beweep my outcast state,<br />And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries,<br />And look upon myself and curse my fate,<br />wishing me like to one more rich in hope,<br />Featured like him, like him with friends possessed,<br />Desiring this man's art, and that man's scope,<br />With what I most enjoy contented least;<br />Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,<br />Haply I think on thee, and then my state,<br />Like to the lark at break of day arising<br />From sullen earth sings hymns at heaven's gate;<br />For thy sweet love remembered such wealth brings,<br />That then I scorn to change my state with kings.</div>
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From time to time we have a guest editor. The next four weeks’ poems are from our second guest editor, who has chosen to remain anonymous. He writes:</div>
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“I have enjoyed reading poems for years and have gained a lot from many of them. The poems I have chosen, which appear over the next four weeks, are very dear to me and express some of my important feelings perfectly.</div>
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<br /> This is the first poem I really remember reading and the first, of very few, I have memorised. Particularly important to me are the last six lines. There have been a few occasions in my life when I felt I have seen a new planet and there have been two ‘Cortez moments’ when a really awesome, wonderful event has occurred."</div>
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<br />Much have I travelled in the realms of gold, <br />And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;<br />Round many western islands have I been<br />Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.<br />Oft of one wide expanse had I been told<br />That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne;<br />Yet did I never breathe its pure serene<br />Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:<br />Then felt I like some watcher of the skies<br />When a new planet swims into his ken;<br />Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes<br />He stared at the Pacific - and all his men<br />Looked at each other with a wild surmise -<br />Silent, upon a peak in Darien.</div>
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Little pilgrim, </div>
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Clutching my bottle </div>
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But I love the I, steel I-beam</div>
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that my father sold. They poured the pig iron</div>
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into the mold, and it fed out slowly,</div>
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a bending jelly in the bath, and it hardened,</div>
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Bessemer, blister, crucible, alloy, and he</div>
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marketed it, and bought bourbon, and Cream</div>
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of Wheat, its curl of butter right</div>
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in the middle of its forehead, he paid for our dresses</div>
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with his metal sweat, sweet in the morning</div>
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and sour in the evening. I love the I,</div>
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frail between its flitches, its hard ground</div>
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and hard sky, it soars between them</div>
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like the soul that rushes, back and forth,</div>
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between the mother and father. What if they had loved
each other,</div>
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how would it have felt to be the strut</div>
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joining the floor and roof of the truss?</div>
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I have seen, on his shirt-cardboard, years</div>
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in her desk, the night they made me, the penciled</div>
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slope of her temperature rising, and on</div>
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the peak of the hill, first soldier to reach</div>
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the crest, the Roman numeral I--</div>
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<i>I, I, I, I,</i></div>
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girders of identity, head on,</div>
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embedded in the poem. I love the I</div>
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for its premise of existence--our I--when I was</div>
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born, part gelid, I lay with you</div>
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on the cooling table, we were all there, a </div>
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forest of felled iron. The I is a pine,</div>
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resinous, flammable root to crown,</div>
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which throws its cones as far as it can in a fire.</div>
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For more Sharon Olds, go to http://www.sharonolds.net.</div>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-80786347619174966732012-04-15T18:57:00.000+01:002012-04-15T18:57:00.802+01:00A Week Later by Sharon Olds<br />
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A week later, I said to
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think I could ever write
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Maybe in a year I could
write something.</div>
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There is something in me
maybe someday</div>
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to be written; now it is
folded, and folded,</div>
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and folded, like a note
in school. And in my dream</div>
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someone was playing
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huge, thrown, tilted
jack</div>
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on fire. And when I woke
up, I found myself</div>
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counting the days since
I had last seen</div>
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my husband-only two
years, and some weeks,</div>
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and hours. We had signed
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ground floor of the
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the intact beauty of its
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like a king's tomb, on
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painted plane, in the
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entered my strictured
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slightly, shyly as if
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untamed, a greater sense
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and plenty of his
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unknown to me, unseen by
me,</div>
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unheard, untouched-but
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heard, touched. And it
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for moments at a time,
moment after moment,</div>
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to be glad for him that
he is with the one</div>
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he feels was meant for
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mother, minutes from her
death, eighty-five</div>
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years from her birth,
the almost warbler</div>
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bones of her shoulder
under my hand, the</div>
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eggshell skull, as she
lay in some peace</div>
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in the clean sheets, and
I could tell her the best</div>
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of my poor, partial
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out with it, I saw the
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and luxury of that hour.</div>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-31934350680220809602012-04-08T12:39:00.000+01:002012-04-08T12:39:00.882+01:00The Necklace by Osip Mandelstam translated from the Russian by Christian Wiman<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
Take, from my palms, for joy, for ease, </div>
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A little honey, a little sun, </div>
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That we may obey Persephone's bees. </div>
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You can't untie a boat unmoored. </div>
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Fur-shod shadows can't be heard, </div>
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Nor terror, in this life, mastered. </div>
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Love, what's left for us, and of us, is this </div>
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Living remnant, loving revenant, brief kiss </div>
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Like a bee flying completed dying hiveless </div>
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To find in the forest's heart a home, </div>
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Night's never-ending hum, </div>
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Thriving on meadowsweet, mint, and time. </div>
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Take, for all that is good, for all that is gone, </div>
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That it may lie rough and real against your collarbone, </div>
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This string of bees, that once turned honey into sun. </div>
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(NOVEMBER 1920)</div>
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If you enjoyed last week's poem - Galway by Chris Jones - you can find out more about Chris Jones at http://www.chris-jones.org.uk.</div>
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<br /></div>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-64848279942531474002012-04-01T12:33:00.005+01:002012-04-01T12:33:47.129+01:00Galway by Chris Jones<br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Leaving Galway we drove out west</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">on roads like little twisters for the tongue,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">stalling at junctions where we had to guess,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">until, inevitably, I guessed wrong –</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">stopped dead, in rain, at the end of Europe,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the rock-pool farms of low walls and cold fish.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We had a map, a bar of chocolate,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and Hartnett's Farewell to English</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to guard against the sky's upturned suitcase,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and you to drive me back to coral beach,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">where creatures have a billion years of grace,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the light of shrunken suns within our reach.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Returning to the spartan, hostel room</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">we hung our clothes up, made it home.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" />toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-26155599078478223312012-03-25T21:12:00.000+01:002012-03-25T21:12:00.075+01:00Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I heard a thousand blended notes,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While in a grove I sate reclined,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In that sweet mood when pleasant thoughts</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bring sad thoughts to the mind.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To her fair works did nature link</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The human soul that through me ran;</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And much it grieved my heart to think</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What man has made of man.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Through primrose tufts, in that sweet bower,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The periwinkle trailed its wreaths; </span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And 'tis my faith that every flower</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Enjoys the air it breathes.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The birds around me hopped and played:</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Their thoughts I cannot measure,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But the least motion which they made,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It seemed a thrill of pleasure.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The budding twigs spread out their fan,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To catch the breezy air;</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And I must think, do all I can,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That there was pleasure there. </span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If this belief from heaven be sent,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If such be Nature's holy plan,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Have I not reason to lament</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What man has made of man?</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /></span>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-65728969493176860952012-03-18T21:11:00.000+00:002012-03-18T21:11:00.117+00:00Spring and All [By the road to the contagious hospital] by William Carlos Williams<br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">By the road to the contagious hospital</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">under the surge of the blue</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">mottled clouds driven from the</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">northeast-a cold wind. Beyond, the</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">waste of broad, muddy fields</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">brown with dried weeds, standing and fallen</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">patches of standing water</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the scattering of tall trees</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All along the road the reddish</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">purplish, forked, upstanding, twiggy</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">stuff of bushes and small trees</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">with dead, brown leaves under them</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">leafless vines-</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lifeless in appearance, sluggish</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">dazed spring approaches-</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">They enter the new world naked,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">cold, uncertain of all</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">save that they enter. All about them</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the cold, familiar wind-</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now the grass, tomorrow</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One by one objects are defined-</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It quickens: clarity, outline of leaf</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But now the stark dignity of</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">entrance-Still, the profound change</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">has come upon them: rooted, they</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">grip down and begin to awaken</span></span>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-43438299484745259152012-03-11T21:10:00.000+00:002012-03-11T21:10:00.961+00:00Bird by Pablo Neruda<span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was passed from one bird to another,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the whole gift of the day.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The day went from flute to flute,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">went dressed in vegetation,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">in flights which opened a tunnel</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">through the wind would pass</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">to where birds were breaking open</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the dense blue air -</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and there, night came in.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When I returned from so many journeys,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I stayed suspended and green</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">between sun and geography -</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I saw how wings worked,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">how perfumes are transmitted</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">by feathery telegraph,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">and from above I saw the path,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the springs and the roof tiles,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the fishermen at their trades,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the trousers of the foam;</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I saw it all from my green sky.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I had no more alphabet</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">than the swallows in their courses,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">the tiny, shining water</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">of the small bird on fire</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">which dances out of the pollen.</span></span>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-35909711198008386292012-03-04T21:08:00.002+00:002012-03-04T21:08:15.974+00:00Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nothing is so beautiful as spring—</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing;</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">With richness; the racing lambs too have fair their fling.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is all this juice and all this joy?</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A strain of the earth’s sweet being in the beginning</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In Eden garden.—Have, get, before it cloy,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Innocent mind and Mayday in girl and boy,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Most, O maid’s child, thy choice and worthy the winning.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Each of my first three selections has evoked the sounds of nature in a different way. My last selection is not really a poem, but an excerpt from the "poetic" novel Fugitive Pieces by Anne Michaels (who is also a poet). Seven year old Jakob Beer has escaped from a holocaust atrocity during which the rest of his family were killed - he is alone in the forest, and dependent upon all his senses for survival. He remembers the attack and misses most his sister Bella. For me, this evocation of the terror of the forest at night invokes all the senses - I can hear it, see it, smell it, taste it, feel it........ <br /><br />Lawrence Casserley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;">Anne Michaels - Fugitive Pieces - excerpt from Part I<br /><br /><br />I couldn't keep out the sounds: the door breaking open, the spit of buttons. My mother, my father. But worse than those sounds was that I couldn't remember hearing Bella at all. Filled with her silence, I had no choice but to imagine her face.<br /><br />The night forest is incomprehensible: repulsive and endless, jutting bones and sticky hair, slime and jellied smells, shallow roots like ropy vines.<br /><br />Draping slugs splash like tar across the ferns; black icicles of flesh.<br /><br />During the day I have time to notice lichen like gold dust over the rocks.<br /><br />A rabbit, sensing me, stops close to my head and tries to hide behind a blade of grass.<br /><br />The sun is jagged through the trees, so bright the spangles turn dark and float, burnt paper, in my eyes.<br /><br />The white nibs of grass get caught in my teeth like pliable little fish bones. I chew fronds into a bitter, stringy mash that turns my spit green.<br /><br />The forest floor is speckled bronze, sugar caramelised in the leaves. The branches look painted onto the onion-white sky. One morning I watch a finger of light move its way deliberately across the ground.<br /><br />I know, suddenly, my sister is dead. At this precise moment, Bella becomes flooded ground. A body of water pulling under the moon.</span></div>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-88832225596849383062012-02-19T15:08:00.000+00:002012-02-19T15:08:00.697+00:00John Clare - The Fallen Elm - excerpt<br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;">John Clare (1793 - 1864) is considered by some to be one of the founding thinkers of the environmental movement. In "The Fallen Elm" he contrasts the freedom of ownership with the freedom of all to enjoy the natural environment, in this case a “music-making elm”.<br /><br />Lawrence Casserley.<br /><br /><br />John Clare - The Fallen Elm - excerpt<br /><br /><br /><br />Old elm that murmured in our chimney top<br /><br />The sweetest anthem autumn ever made<br /><br />And into mellow whispering calms would drop<br /><br />When showers fell on thy many coloured shade<br /><br />And when dark tempests mimic thunder made -<br /><br />While darkness came as it would strangle light<br /><br />With the black tempest of a winter night<br /><br />That rocked thee like a cradle in thy root -<br /><br />How did I love to hear the winds upbraid<br /><br />Thy strength without - while all within was mute.<br /><br />It seasoned comfort to our hearts' desire,<br /><br />We felt that kind protection like a friend<br /><br />And edged our chairs up closer to the fire,<br /><br />Enjoying comfort that was never penned.<br /><br />Old favourite tree, thou'st seen time's changes lower,<br /><br />Though change till now did never injure thee;<br /><br />For time beheld thee as her sacred dower<br /><br />And nature claimed thee her domestic tree.<br /><br />With axe at root he felled thee to the ground<br /><br />And barked of freedom - O I hate the sound<br /><br />Time hears its visions speak, - and age sublime<br /><br />Hath made thee a disciple unto time.<br /><br />- Such was thy ruin, music-making elm;<br /><br />The right of freedom was to injure thine:<br /><br />As thou wert served, so would they overwhelm<br /><br />In freedom's name the little that is mine. </span>toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4684095161304544254.post-60415974440256431402012-02-12T13:39:00.000+00:002012-02-12T13:39:00.152+00:00Jorge Luis Borges - The Unending Rose - excerpt (translated by Alastair Read)<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jorge Luis Borges has been a great influence on my work. He is best known for his extraordinary stories, but he was also a fine poet. One of my compositions is titled "The Unending Rose", inspired by this poem, which was written late in his life, when his increasing blindness affected him greatly. Listen to the “music, rivers, firmaments, palaces and angels”.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lawrence Casserley.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jorge Luis Borges - The Unending Rose - excerpt (translated by Alastair Read)</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your fragile globe is in my hand; and time</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">is bending both of us, both unaware,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">this afternoon, in a forgotten garden.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your brittle shape is humid in the air.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The steady, tidal fullness of your fragrance</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">rises up to my old, declining face.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But I know you far longer than that child</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">who glimpsed you in the layers of a dream</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">or here, in this garden, once upon a morning.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The whiteness of the sun may well be yours</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">or the moon’s gold, or else the crimson stain</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">on the hard sword-edge in the victory.</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I am blind and I know nothing, but I see</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">there are more ways to go; and everything</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">is an infinity of things. You, you are music,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">rivers, firmaments, palaces and angels,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">O endless rose, intimate, without limit,</span><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">which the Lord will finally show to my dead eyes.</span></span><br />toboshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11874638690165131276noreply@blogger.com1