Lawrence, my ever-musical friend, I am so grateful for your reading and
hearing of this poem, honestly, even in the midst of considerable activity
at your end.
Bless you, and I'm chuckling about the shutting up and shutting off and
Stephen has gotten us all thinking thereupon.
THANKS, Sheila
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:41 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Hi Sheila
>
> I have been a little preoccupied much of today with a form from a funding
> council today - i thought i was winning and then around midday my HoD said
> that he had read my first draft and hoped I didn't mind a few suggestions;
> and I only managed to read your poem and mutter internally _well that's
> even more brilliant than she usually is_
>
> It's not that I have defeated the form; but we have agreed to go back to
> our tents for the night; and so I can relax till the morning
>
> So before i go into a coma in preparation for the train i'll just say that
> this is a rather special poem
>
> one of those that makes the rest of us think _so *that's what we're trying
> to do_
>
> i did sort of think of _shutting off_ - that implicitly you are saying
> _shut up without shutting off_ without saying _shutting off_; i think i
> did
>
> and that's better than the often quoted _teach us to sit still_
>
> but stephen went ahead of me; and that's ok
>
> so i'll shut up
>
> L
>
>
> On Fri, July 29, 2011 18:06, Sheila Murphy wrote:
> > Doug, Stephen, and Hal, many thanks! Sheila
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Stephen Vincent
> > <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> >
> >
> >> As different from 'shutting off'!
> >>
> >>
> >> Stephen
> >>
> >>
> >> --- On Thu, 7/28/11, Peter ciccariello <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> From: Peter ciccariello <[log in to unmask]>
> >> Subject: Re: All my Pauses Have Been Pregnant for Nine Hundred Years
> >> To: [log in to unmask]
> >> Date: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 4:42 PM
> >>
> >>
> >> "We learn best while shutting up." & all - Marvelous!
> >>
> >>
> >> - Peter
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 7:20 PM, Sheila Murphy
> >> <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Sign posted in the window reads "Gone window
> >>> shopping."
> >>>
> >>> Meditation usually amounts to afterthought.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Now and at the time of our depth,
> >>> perception, triumph starts absorbing local color.
> >>>
> >>> All new lanterns have ethnicity,
> >>> and back bends replenish mirror images galore.
> >>>
> >>> Freshmen remaining
> >>> in short supply eventually season into people like ourselves.
> >>>
> >>> Is there any reason for continuing
> >>> once bookmarks have been shuffled via legacy implanted?
> >>>
> >>> Saints for decades have said yes
> >>> when they intended to say no.
> >>>
> >>> Meanwhile, present tense is overrated,
> >>> under heated, under service warranty, with checks incoming and alarm
> >>> outgoing, underneath presumptive surplus of untidy amenities.
> >>>
> >>> We learn best while shutting up.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Sheila E. Murphy
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
> >> http://uncommonvision.blogspot.com/
> >> http://poemsfromprovidence.blogspot.com/
> >> http://uncommon-vision.blogspot.com/
> >> You can find my art and writing updates on Twitter
> >> https://twitter.com/ciccariello
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>
> -----
> solo poems
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
>
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Try%20Valley.pdf
>
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Walking.pdf
> -----
> collaborative visual work:-
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
> ----
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
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