Me dear dad-moiling
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From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
Sent: 18 December 2013 13:10
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Subject: Re: walking the cliffs at Ogo Dour
did not sit comfortably with what, dear boy?
On 18 December 2013 12:56, Patrick McManus
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> L thanks lively for me -moiled did not seem to sit comfortably (for
> me!!)??
> P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> Sent: 18 December 2013 11:02
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> Subject: walking the cliffs at Ogo Dour
>
> white out at some distance
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> grey-green nearer
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> the stubble-below cliffs
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> a cliff top pool
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> a temporary thing of rain
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> wonderfully blustered
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> we look in
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> leaning away from the edge
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> being pushed to
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> seeking life
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> some dirt or something
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> but there is none
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> only the moiled clay soil
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> at its base
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> a stonechat dashes
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> from grasses out into sea sky
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> returning sharply
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