Sally:
I like how you maintain the basic "feel" of "Love Song", and you also
maintain the irony, devastation, and so forth. I had to look up
"antirrhinums"! <G> Vivid imagery. I particularly chuckled with the line:
"a football crowd of Scots..."
I don't know who Simeon is? Unless it's a play on "simian"...
Terrie
> >Hyperpoem: A new song for Simeon
> >
> >And I have known them all already, known them all:
> >the logs lying on beaches in Australia,
> >ships going through the Panama canal;
> >the elephant playing with paints provided
> > by the recipient of the Indian equivalent
> > of an arts council project grant;
> >the great films and the worthy books
> >the words in the books and the cumulative effect
> > of the cellulose frames in the film;
> >the lame excuses and protestations
> >the mussels in the river without pearls
> > and the mussels destroyed for pearls
> >the stag baying on the hillside
> >the ant scurrying under the antirrhinums;
> >stories of survival at sea written
> > by those who have actually survived;
> >the walls of castles become insecure with age
> > and the neglect of the owners;
> >the turrets of castles built high and mighty
> > on the skyline;
> >a football crowd of Scots going home
> > after being defeated by the English;
> >the cousin, the second cousin, the business associate,
> > the intractable daughter and the aunt,
> >the pampered animal and the stray animal;
> >records played loudly and regularly on the radio;
> >musicians on city pavements carrying their
> > odd-shaped musical instruments in cases;
> >the leaves falling off the forest trees,
> > and those that remain on their trees;
> >the children filing into school, and the soldiers
> > scattered over the battlefield;
> >water turning to ice, desired and not desired;
> >mankind who cannot be called happy until he is dead,
> > but often makes a good job of the impossible;
> >the boat coming in to the beach, the long crossed letter,
> > the message bobbing in a bottle, forever unread,
> >and winter flowers that come out every spring.
> >
> >And I have known them all already, known them all,
> > no end to them
> >until there is only one unknown left to discover,
> > and it isnšt the world which will end.
> >
> >Sally Evans
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> bw
> James
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