Thanks very much guys and gal. I will follow Bill's suggestions and place it up the front (first cab off the rank) ...
Andrew
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> On 28 Nov 2019, at 12:41 am, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> I like it, & it seems to be you & your poetry in many ways, so could work at the beginning. I also likeBill’s suggestion as a possibility.
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> Doug
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>> On Nov 27, 2019, at 12:47 AM, Andrew Burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> *I've been working on a Selected Poems and I can across this. Fiddled a
>> little and wondered if it may by a good poem to put up the front? *
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>> *ARS POETICA*
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>> My heart is still beating –
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>> it jumped a beat when
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>> my first cry
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>> startled the surgeon.
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>> Now I’m still trying
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>> to translate it –
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>> sound before music,
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>> beat before language.
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>> I’ll wake in the morning,
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>> in the tail spin of a dream
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>> – and prepare breakfast:
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>> grind coffee beans,
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>> toast bread, whip
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>> eggs into a scramble –
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>> whistling kettle
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>> grinding bean grinder
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>> hiss of gas when it
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>> first flares – all will be
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>> in any poem I write today:
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>> sound before music,
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>> beat before language.
>>
>>
>> Andrew
>> http://hispirits.blogspot.com/
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