I put up a poem by Lilly, daughter of Jon Paul Fiorentino, Canadian poet
and wit. Very lively and 'mad'. Then, I'll pop Max's poem up later -
quality for the new year.
Andrew
On 1 January 2014 21:39, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Max keep flying but where were the dogs? Cheers P
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Max Richards
> Sent: 31 December 2013 23:38
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: 'My next poem'
>
> My next poem
>
> takes off from the park like a silent
> helicopter lifting rapidly
> to intoxicating heights
> or a balloon under sure control -
>
> away with adjectival
> ballast! higher than kites,
> readers freed with me from
> burdensome selves - weightless -
>
> and I, afflatus harnessed
> to brain-basket's unforeseen
> neuroplastic capacity -
> no? - adjectives still deeply
>
> problematical - can't they be
> punctured and drained?
> we're slewing badly in
> erratic cross-draughts -
>
> shouldn't nature be on side
> after all this homage we paid?
> all part of the joy-ride!
> believe me? I insist -
>
> list our benefits
> perpendicular perspectives
> pan-Pacific panoramas
> swooping on all the images
>
> ever dreamed of and more
> from Gooligulch
> to the Galapagos
> and everywhere Googlable
>
> images not just free floating
> but in the service
> of rarest intuition
> and connectedness
>
> metaphor mightily
> meaningfully
> metaphysical
> melding weathers
>
> outer and inner.
> Watch out! above loom
> thunderclouds verging
> on thunderboltclapping
>
> and in this basket
> deep detonations
> of discovery - what beats
> in me beats in you.
>
> The truest poetry
> is the most niftily
> aeronautical most
> meteorological
>
> and lands you back again
> refreshed in body-mind
> in the park near home where
> so recently you began.
>
--
Andrew
http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
'Undercover of Lightness'
http://walleahpress.com.au/recent-publications.html
'Shikibu Shuffle'
http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/new-from-aboveground-press-shikibu.html
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