Gosh, Andrew, this is a a compliment, go ahead…
[Once perpetrated i saw it is a travesty of Song of Myself and also 1930s Auden …]
have a great 2014, Andrew, Bill, everybody…
Max in Melbourne
On 01/01/2014, at 11:50 AM, Andrew Burke wrote:
> A great one, Max. May I blog it? Jusat to kick the new year off to a good
> start!
>
> Happy days from us in Corowa -
>
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 1 January 2014 11:00, Bill Wootton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> A new year tour-de-force, Max, bounding with optimism. Well done.
>>
>> Bill
>>
>>> On 1 Jan 2014, at 10:37 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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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