Thanks, Anny.
Where's your google earth poem?
Best from Max
On 20/2/08 8:43 PM, "Anny Ballardini" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I also wrote a poem some time ago on google earth, I did enjoy playing with
> it.
> In your poem there are some good passages, I particularly like:
>
> but recently enough the lake looks low.
> Zoom back up, we¹re off overseas, blue
> Tasman, curving coast of my old country,
> down over Hargest Terrace, Owairaka.
>
>
> 2008/2/20 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
>
>> Max thanks google earth poem what possibilities-shame that there is a
>> time
>> lag perhaps later in real time -cor Big Brother !! cheers
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Max Richards
>> Sent: 19 February 2008 22:54
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Snap 20 Feb: google earth
>>
>> Google Earth
>> (globetrotting without jetlag)
>>
>> 1
>> ŒAs the hawk sees it
>> or the helmeted airman¹,
>> thus young Auden imaged
>> his England, country of his
>> Œwhere no one was well¹.
>>
>> As the astronaut sees it
>> or the satellite circling,
>> now all Earth shows itself
>> imaged on our computer screens.
>> Now no need for imagination.
>>
>> 2
>> Where would you like to hover today?
>> Start at our home suburb, zoom down and in:
>> that¹s our red roof, tiny garden, neighbours¹ pools
>> snapped not this week (uncertain weather),
>>
>> but recently enough the lake looks low.
>> Zoom back up, we¹re off overseas, blue
>> Tasman, curving coast of my old country,
>> down over Hargest Terrace, Owairaka.
>>
>> Which house was Dad¹s and Mum¹s?
>> Number seven, opposite the lane.
>> Modest, spartan, pathetic, cramping,
>> diagram of mother-love and father-shy.
>>
>> Escape once was slow, if airborne.
>> Heathrow here I come again.
>> In Hyde Park by one of those trees
>> jetlag first hit (no-one had warned me).
>>
>> Edinburgh you¹re so elegant, even from above.
>> Here I walked, there was my bus stop,
>> there the libraries. Scotland, where
>> no one was very well, but a few were angry.
>>
>> Since I left I see it¹s built a bit, lost a lot.
>> Slagheaps by former coal mines linger.
>> Is that a synthetic ski-slope on one?
>> Up and away ... my son says zoom in
>>
>> on Bondi Beach, you can pick out
>> every single sunbather. Why, so you can,
>> and some are very brown, and very bare.
>> Rude health; anger in short supply.
>>
>> The surf is very white.
>>
>> Wednesday 20 February 2008
>>
>> Max Richards
>> Doncaster, Victoria
>>
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