Are we still flying planes???isn't the petrol running out? -it's all
madness-people ofLondon -etc driven mad by aircraft flights noise pollution
crashes in the offing ugh -ban them
P best wishes
Faraway places wrecked by mindless gawking tourists and poets
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Andrew Burke
Sent: 30 October 2011 02:52
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Subject: Re: Monk's Guest House
I shall, but I'm busy fighting with Qantas today!!! Stuck in Hong Kong
trying to get home. Grrrr ... Andrew
On 29 October 2011 22:10, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> I don't know whether anyone would like to comment on the following piece
> but
> it is something I've been pushing about recently following a short stay at
> a
> Cistercian monastery guest-lodge. I'm not a Roman Catholic myself, so the
> poem has no doctrinal sensitivities or claims:
>
>
> *Monk's Guest House*
>
>
> Some distant schools of stars in swarm
>
> above a spire, and farm,
>
> and drowsing cows. All meat and milk
>
> in steep sunk sleep, a cud of dreams,
>
> untroubled by the muscled tower's
>
> electric prod, its bells' peals' starry tongue
>
> this herd has never heard
>
>
>
> since its first day tired. My watch face
>
> says three and my slow animal wakes
>
> as the bells' claw and clamber breaks
>
> the burr and mumble
>
> of where am I am. Legs and arms, feet
>
> to hands assemble
>
>
> like lines racing a plough. I snub
>
> forward into night-buttoned, carbon
>
> promising air, head down
>
> toward shell spills of crackle, side
>
> slips of gravel and a door
>
>
> homed low on a still stone hull
>
> where a shy
>
> bay chapel waits
>
> us and the hushed sparse wash
>
>
> of dark and morning vigil.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> --
> David Joseph Bircumshaw
> "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is
> that none of it has tried to contact us."
> - Calvin & Hobbes
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