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‘Who are You, Lord? …’and the echo came backlike a winter shout against a cliff of stone..‘…..Lord……’TodayI whispered in my despair‘Lord, who are You? …’and the echo came backlike summer water over a pebble…‘……You…..’
With all the excitement of a Florentine writer around 1480
and has plans to use it bigtimeI’m sitting here at the PC, one ofthe first generation of mature writerswho can bring to a lifetime’s experiencethe web’s recall of every great and relevant wordrecorded since the beginning of recorded time and thuspigmies on the shoulders of giantsand what happensthe excitement’s gone to my
Gathering rosebuds with my rake;
over the gravel pathbringing a token of orderto the autumn of a life;rosebuds, nipped at the neckby frost; dead leavescurled like begging or covetous hands,coloured like rich memories, red, orange, brown,dry husks, spilt seed,now crisp, eager to surrender to the fire,its scented smoke curling like a pyre againsta cold blue sky now welcominga tidy offering…
Is there a god
even the doorhandle, gently turned,seems to speak a messagebefore the room entered, the first breath takenof the room’s own airand on the table, the grey-green vase seemsto be the host; the silent messenger: the furnituresomehow eternal in its order; every line and curvewithin the room speaking of somedivine geometry; the shaded sunlight seemsto fall on…
Prosody:
and how. I guess..In Greek, it just means ‘tune’. Thatshould give a clue. In Latin,the word they used meant‘song added to speech’.So ‘poetry’ is pretty wellindefinable. It’s – well—whatever it means to you.And how the hell it does that. Thereare rules but,it finds its own. Forone thing above allreally matters: poetry iswhat it does. What…
‘So, what do you yourself wish for
is thrust; the videotape awaits…and perhaps, there’s some golden linkbetween New Year wish and New Year resolution…between the individual will and the universal..meanwhile, the sceptic stands aside, at the crowd’s edge,without a wish or resolution; wondering,‘are things/is the world, a better place,at this New Year than at the last? ’But, who then to set some…