Our next year...ongoing...
Doug
On Jan 1, 2014, at 4:55 PM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I put up a poem by Lilly, daughter of Jon Paul Fiorentino, Canadian poet
> and wit. Very lively and 'mad'. Then, I'll pop Max's poem up later -
> quality for the new year.
>
> Andrew
>
>
> On 1 January 2014 21:39, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Max keep flying but where were the dogs? Cheers P
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc: poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of Max Richards
>> Sent: 31 December 2013 23:38
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: 'My next poem'
>>
>> 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
>
Douglas Barbour
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Swept snow, Li Po,
by dawn’s 40-watt moon
to the road that hies to office
away from home.
Lorine Niedecker
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