Hi, I must have signed up to this a while ago, is it for workshopping poems?
Marion
--- On Tue, 6/1/09, Arthur Seeley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Arthur Seeley <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Postcard from Greece
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Tuesday, 6 January, 2009, 5:37 PM
> I am trying to get this list back on its feet. Anyone
> writing poetry out there? Arthur
>
> Postcard from Greece
>
> In the shade of a dark-leafed grove,out of the sun, I rest
> and watchthe sea, far below, burnished shield-bright.Blades
> of thorn and thistle knifecoronets of blue flowers, fiery
> daisies blaze and poppies bleed.Trapped in the silence and
> heat, the ass and goat graze the long slow golden hours
> away.An age ago farmers and shepherds toiledhere, turned the
> dry soil, until the gods goaded them, toyed with their
> lives, whispered of glory in other landstill they left their
> dark-leafed olive grovesto venture on the blood-dark
> seas;became heroes and warriors.Under the sullen skies women
> weptand waited; the ass and goat grazed the long dark years
> away.Now lizards bask on broken columnsand the belled goat
> tolls doleful among thorns.Wine and song memorialize the
> time,the battle’s clamour, shouts of pain,deaths on
> foreign hills,flame and slaughter in the night;tell how
> Jason’s sail cracked and bellied in the fabling
> winds,Odysseus tricked the Trojan gateand Alexander bestrode
> the world.
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