on 23/1/02 6:38 pm, grasshopper at [log in to unmask]
wrote:
> Grain
Yes I thought the same as Christine that there was something wrong with the
last stanza _ I can see reasons for it being there to form the progression
from the first stanza throughthe distribution of the 'grain' : something ike
I wrote this poem... hoping that a reader....? Sally-ee
>
> I think of Hulme
> who fell in Flanders field
> like a bloody cliche
>
> and left a small legacy
> his testament
> to be distributed like bread
>
> his grain fed many tongues
> seeded many minds
> engendered subtle songs
>
> he hated the facile
> despised metre
> sought the fresh connection
>
> I wrote this poem
> because I want you
> to think of Hulme
>
> grasshopper
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