Be patient with me. I was gigging last night and only just recovering from
the journey home courtesy of Transport for London... I'm not even sure
there was an experience, as such.
I've agreed with Patrick that it's Canvey; but I've never been to Canvey...
I had to look at the map to see how it relates to Thanet as I have a
growing sense of that. I knew the river would be in the way; but it's not
that near...
Much of the Earth's surface is a surreal landscape thanks to us. A few
miles south of here there is a 14-18 overgrown landscape that was
constructed a century back for training. I just offer that as a random
example.
It's the experience indicated in the poem, which I may well have made up. I
think it needs to be present tense.
Hardly a major poem anyway, but one of those which may be cumulative.
L
On 28 May 2014 16:59, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Yes, of course, hut your comment suggested the experience (& first
> writing) were sometime in the past....
>
> A little joke/prod only, L.
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> D
> On May 28, 2014, at 9:48 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
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> > Why's that. Everything there, such as it is, is present tense; and it's
> the
> > experience rather than the story I am after
> >
> > L
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> > On 28 May 2014 16:43, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> >> Well the 'view' is there, L.
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> >> But maybe it should be 'appeared'?
> >>
> >> D
> >> On May 28, 2014, at 9:37 AM, Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
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> >>> I suppose so. I'm wondering myself, not least where it was, if it was
> >>> anywhere specifically. Somewhere in England rather than any other
> country
> >>> of UK L
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 28 May 2014 16:22, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
> >> wrote:
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> >>>> L Ah rejuvenation-nature returns to cover ruins cheers P did you have
> >> the
> >>>> Paer not plastic bag?
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> >>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> >> On
> >>>> Behalf Of Lawrence Upton
> >>>> Sent: 28 May 2014 13:54
> >>>> To: [log in to unmask]
> >>>> Subject: still life
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> >>>> There appears a desolate place on which, once, were concrete
> buildings,
> >>>> suggested by a few lines and humps.
> >>>>
> >>>> Butterflies, here and there, moving towards blooms, over which they
> >> shall
> >>>> hover.
> >>>>
> >>>> A jet fighter crosses the sky.
> >>>>
> >>>> A man holding a paper bag stands still and grins.
> >>>>
> >>>
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