Indeed, Patrick; and to some extent the sky begins just above the ground;
but I am or was suspicious of the meaningfulness (now there's a word) of
looking down into the sky
since then, and it has been a busy day, I have bought a new saucepan and
written a poem, though these are unrelated activities, I have come to the
conclusion that looking down into the sky *was my experience
That's not enough. That doesn't make the poem ok; but it's a useful
location for more thought
I have various ways out of the maze
L
On Wed, September 28, 2011 10:56, Patrick McManus wrote:
> I mean isn't height just relative to what's around it -Denmarks highest
> mountain is 172m and at my age mountains are above two storeys Cheers P in
> garden in sunshine waiting for kettle to boil
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> Subject: Re: St Ives Bay from The Malakoff
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> It's good you're reading them!
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>
> I'm less than happy now with the third word, _into_
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> I'm thinking of _within_
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>
> The height, you see, isn't that great. No Cornish heights are, not once
> you've been up any kind of a mountain, and Tregenna Hill is a mere bump
>
> So I am chewing the cud over this
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>
> Thanks for your readership
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>
>
> L
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>
> On Mon, September 26, 2011 23:32, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>
>> I read them all, Lawrence, but dont always have much to say beyond that
>> (as with the next little one),
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>> but I like the 'looking down' here...
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>> Doug
>> On 2011-09-25, at 3:47 AM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>>> Looking down into heaped chaotic sky.
>>> Tumbled clothing of watery cloud overcast,
>>> showing much strong white. A small fishing boat slowly disturbs the
>>> tranquilised bay, followed by gulls flying themselves wave height
>>>
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>> Douglas Barbour
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>> http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/
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>> Latest books:
>> Continuations (with Sheila E Murphy)
>> http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=664
>> Wednesdays'
>> http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_
>> 10
>> .html
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>> Why poetry? And why not, I asked,
>> my right brain humming sedition.
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>> Phyllis Webb
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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