Hi Sally,
I think you are right about the paradox and meaningless moving into
infinity. It's something that interests me from time to time and that poetry
is ideally placed to express.
bw
James
>From: Sally Evans <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Pennine Poetry Works <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: New sub: relics
>Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 21:47:56 +0100
>
>This poem has a very interesting argument, James.
>I am not sure if your casual method of writing this works or not.
>I imagine that you are trying not to make mantras, but after all a poem is
>a
>poem and even one that says we repeat words to the point of meaninglessness
>still has to be a poem that repeats words... a paradox no doubt.
>bw
>SallyE
>
>on 21/6/04 12:47 pm, James Bell at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > I'm writing some poems in a lower case only. Call it affectation or just
>the
> > way it is.
> >
> > relics
> >
> > religion likes relics
> > often bones
> > often worn and ancient
> >
> > likes the relic words of the bone's owners
> > fixed in binding patterns
> > preserved by writing and reciting
> >
> > so it is often difficult to know
> > if the day will be fine and new
> > a time of praise and celebration
> >
> > in imitation of the old ways
> > though without the bones
> > the worn and ancient relics
> >
> > and not preserved by
> > writing and reciting
> > until the fineness is blunted
> >
> > into another dogma
> > to become merely a relic
> > of yesterday
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > bw
> > James
> >
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