Pose poems?
L
On Thu, July 14, 2011 10:54, Angela Keaton wrote:
> And sometimes, it seems, you write pose poems about your 'snapshot'
> poems. Thanks.
> Angela.
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device
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>
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> From: Lawrence Upton <[log in to unmask]>
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> Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:40:56
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> Subject: Re: Moonlight
>
>
> Thank you very much, Jill. I aim to please (myself)!
>
>
> And thanks again to everyone who wrote yesterday - Sheila, Millicent and
> Doug, I believe. Apologies if I have missed anyone - hunny pots and little
> brain etc.
>
> All I said back was "thanks" but that's all that came to me. Then.
> Seemingly, I'm not much better now. Let's try.
>
>
> I haven't seen the moon properly for ages. In the winter I was in a small
> cottage for some weeks which has an electrically-operated skylight -
> against stuff like moonlight as well as manmade light; and I opened it
> one night --
>
> what do you do in the middle of the night when you wake up? you press a
> switch.... I control therefore I exist --
>
> and there was a moon, the whole circle of it, unlike the partial version
> I
> saw a few nights ago
>
> but since I have been in city pent for too many months and I don't see it
>
>
> Look up, is that the moon I see?
> Can't be, looks like the sun to me
>
>
> and then, a few nights ago, as I say, I heard a sound convincingly like a
> burglar (we're allowed to kill them now -- it's intended to keep Merde
> Duck off the phone hacking); and there was a fox shining in a bright
> partial moon and surrounded by green but darkened growth
>
> the fox rushed out of the poem to be, leaving me staring, stunned as a
> frightened rabbit, and the next day I turned the unfoxed sight into the
> verse you've seen
>
> I do appreciate the response. I used, like some here still, snapshot
> fairly regularly. Then I published a selective book of them and concluded
> that was enough and I would do other things.
>
> But now and then I write something that is snapshotish (a kind of
> dance)and show it here.
>
> The response is encouraging; or was this time. Ta all. What would I do
> without you?
>
> L
>
>
> On Thu, July 14, 2011 02:08, Jill Jones wrote:
>
>> The use of consonants, esp b (and f) is fascinating. The b a bit of a
>> low rumble.
>>
>> J
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>> __________________________
>> Jill Jones
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>> website: www.jilljones.com.au
>> blog: rubystreet.blogspot.com
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>> On 13/07/2011, at 8:29 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
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>>> unable to speak you’re doing this rich voice light like brambles
>>>
>>> branching
>>>
>>> silvers each surrounding branch
>>>
>>> breaks up to deep shadow
>>>
>>> breathless atmosphere shall take some telling
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>>> foolish looking *and revealing
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>>>
>>> flame behind skin
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>>>
>>>
>>> Lawrence Upton
>>> July 2011
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>>> -----
>>> solo poems
>>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
>>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica
>>> _U
>>> pton_Try%20Valley.pdf
>>> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetic
>>> a_ Upton_Walking.pdf
>>> -----
>>> collaborative visual work:-
>>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
>>> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
>>> ----
>>> Lawrence Upton
>>> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
>>> Dept of Music
>>> Goldsmiths, University of London
>>>
>>>
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> solo poems
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upt
> on_Try%20Valley.pdf
> http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Up
> ton_Walking.pdf -----
> collaborative visual work:-
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
> http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
> ----
> Lawrence Upton
> AHRC Creative Research Fellow
> Dept of Music
> Goldsmiths, University of London
>
>
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solo poems
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/current_journal.html
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Try%20Valley.pdf
http://www.landscapeandlanguagecentre.au.com/Peripatetica/Peripatetica_Upton_Walking.pdf
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collaborative visual work:-
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/upton-begbie.html
http://www.poetrybeyondtext.org/begbie-upton.html
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Lawrence Upton
AHRC Creative Research Fellow
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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