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'
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'Shikibu Shuffle'
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