Thanks everyone.
I hadn’t really noticed (& then I did) how much my reading of WCW back in the late 60s, his late poems in his 3 line stanzas, has stayed with me.
And, yes, Sinclair does wonderful watercolours…
Doug
> On Jul 31, 2019, at 8:13 PM, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Gentle, meandering, Doug.
>
> Bill
>
> On Thu, 1 Aug 2019 at 11:55 am, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> a light touch. A watercolour poem
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>>> On 1 Aug 2019, at 12:59 am, Patrick McManus <
>> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Doug thought this was staring off as sf! it would be fun to make it
>> into one
>>>
>>> found him on the web -and many other Sinclairs !cheers P
>>>
>>> ps is a question mark needed last verse??
>>>
>>>> On 31/07/2019 16:43, Douglas Barbour wrote:
>>>> you see no one
>>>> on those colourful roads
>>>> hung in space
>>>>
>>>> mountains range
>>>> beyond below
>>>> they curve & twist
>>>>
>>>> from nowhere to nowhere
>>>> lost (or found
>>>> among glittering peaks
>>>>
>>>> who walks there walks
>>>> other times other dimensions
>>>> they emerge enter unseen
>>>>
>>>> for Robert Sinclair
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> (which will mean little to you all, I suppose, but whose early
>> watercolours did this thing….)
Douglas Barbour
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Shakespeare
Drag yr mouldy old bones
Up these stairs & tell me
What you died of,
I think
I’ve got it
Too.
Sharon Thesen
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