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Did you notice
after filling your tank today,a drop, of oil, of gasoline, of petrolfell on the stained and stony ground?did you hear – no, surely it couldn’t be –the faintest sound then, almostas if it came from somewhere on that ground?It was my voice.Millions, billions of years agoI was a treereaching upward from the blessing of the…
Now that this housefly
over the past – what?
Our future is a projection of our past
to grace proceedingswith spontaneous life and hopebeyond the present forward reaching shadowsof our past deeds.(poem by David Taylor, poetry student)
‘What is the purpose of poetry? [Candidates
for this paper on the answer tothis question. Write on one side of the paper onlybut with both frontal lobes;hearts may be used in answers to this question.]’After the two hours is up, hand ina blank sheet; the examiner may sigh and smile.Some sages say – those not affectedby some academic status to uphold –(that…
Old poets, torturing their thoughts to rhyme,
oft found just cause to moan of ‘envious Time’,and seek immortal fame in ‘Time defied’;for rhymesters, it is ever June, when moonshines on their corn; for moralists, base lovemay find in Plato reason to attuneand lift their Muse to world on world above –and then, there’s Shakespeare: from whose boundless artflows liquid gold; whose words…
and for no reason
for no reasonI flick the dusteras if I’m in some song-and-dance act;for no reasonI stop; sit down; fall silent;for no reasonget up again; do something elsewith a light heart;for what has reasonto do with all this?it always arrives just a moment too lateto enjoy such events.*[leaning on Hafiz’ poem of this title]