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Goodonya, Janet. Nice to see ya back. Andre de Linfen On 22/11/06, Patrick Mc Manus <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Keep singing Janet good to hear from you > P singing P > > -----Original Message----- > From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to poetry and > poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Janet Jackson > Sent: 21 November 2006 15:29 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: I'm back, with a poem > > I'm back! Hi Patrick, Jon, everyone; thanks Alison for reinstating me. > The following poem is a work in progress. Started yesterday. > > > The answer to your question > can only be sung. > Can only be whooed with an umbrella-flipping wind > Can only be rained. > > It cannot be Googled, > found on Wikipedia, > archived, > written or spoken. > > But it can be born. The answer to your question can be born > in a plane or a tunnel > a revolving restaurant or a cave > a Hyatt or a fleapit. > > Then it will need to be rained. > > The answer to your question can be rained > by a guitar, can be tossed all over you > by the interplay of drums, can be splashed > hot onto your cheeks by the smile and flip, > pull and release of bass. > > And by nine quiet words > and the slight nod of a > face. > > *** > > Then the answer to your question can be felt > but you have to feel it yourself. You have to sit > > in the perfunctory hush of a non-denominational chapel > and cry into empty hands. Just-emptied, sweaty hands. > > Pray as someone who has never prayed before, > to presence which needs no name. > > Give thanks for the miraculous loss of a dream. > Then look at the stained glass and see, sun-backlit, the > face. > > *** > > Then sing and sing, in whatever voice you have. > Because remember what I said at the start. > The answer to your question can only be sung. > > > Janet > ------------------------------------------------------- > Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]> > Poems at Proximity: > http://www.proximity.webhop.net > > "Jars of springwater are not enough > anymore. Take us down to the river!" > Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks. > ------------------------------------------------------- > -- Andrew http://hispirits.blogspot.com/ http://www.bam.com.au/andrew