Hello
I have yet to post on this mailbase because I have felt somewhat at a loss
for protocol (if not time). It seems a happy note to begin on though to say
that I love this poem. It is evocative of a certain stillness/ a sense of
open beauty. the space is obvious... the beauty is of the images...
Andrea Baker
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> Thanks for those comments Helen. The poem was not
> really about anything, just a little juxtaposition of
> colours, the cold bureaucratic white of the title
> beside the mouldy green pastoral patina of the others.
> It's not anything very important to me, I just felt
> that after months of being on this e group and
> probably several dozen postings I should get round to
> poetry!
> Cheers
> Scott
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> As a *quorum* is a select group, usually enough people
> at a meeting to make
> it constitutional, I figure the first line sets up
> the irony - as if to say
> 'there is the initiator/ideas person in attendance and
> this person is doing
> all the work, while in the second line - 'the rest
> have their heads buried
> in the proverbial sand, doing nothing' - if this is
> the set up of the irony,
> then *dipped in the sand* doesn't seem to deliver this
> effect strongly
> enough. A better word than *dipped* perhaps.
> Just guessing.
> Best
> HH
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>> THE QUORUM
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>> a single drop loads the foliage
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>> *
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>> treetops dipped in the earth
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> "Why is it not possible for me to doubt that I have never been on the moon?
> And how
> could I try to doubt it? First and foremost, the supposition that perhaps I
> have
> been there would strike me as idle. Nothing would follow from it, nothing be
> explained by it. It would not tie in with anything in my life...
> Philosophical
> problems occur when language goes on holiday. We must not separate ideas from
> life,
> we must not be misled by the appearances of sentences: we must investigate the
> application of words in individual language-games" - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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