Hi Grassy,
This is a quite superb poem where the elaborate language style fits the
subject admirably. Nice addition to the hyperpoem project.
bw
James
>From: grasshopper <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: New Sub:Hyperpoem: Atlantis
>Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 21:00:08 -0000
>
>This is the second poem I've written using this line from Prufrock:
>"We have lingered in the chambers of the sea"
>C & C welcomed
>Kind regards,
> grasshopper
>
>
> Atlantis
>
>We have lingered in the chambers
>of the sea and heard from far above
>reverberation of great storms,
>thud and thunder
>muffled by the mother brine.
>I couch with my close kindred
>in the rainbow coils of nautilus;
>curved in the marble maws of conch,
>we grow tentacles of will.
>
>We are moulding limbs and weapons
>wiith your old abandoned metal,
>with heavy poisons jettisoned,
>and the wanton waste of earth.
>Thoughtless lands have taught us
>to unshape and re-assemble,
>We repair the ancient temples,
>resurrecting shattered towers:
>we have re-turreted Atlantis.
>
>Scrape us with your greedy trawl-nets,
>sound us with your subtle sensors,
>we will keep our secrets still.
>Here in the liquid caverns
>where life first burst-bubbled,
>slowly, deeply, we are transforming time.
>While you hasten to conclusion,
>we are moving to beginning;
>while you scramble to your finish,
>we are building into birth.
>
> grasshopper
bw
James
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