nigelswift
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Re: On Death's tree
Sep 23, 2006, 07:55
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Actually, curmudgeonliness aside I don't like the poem - simply for this line - "We grow on Death's tree as ephemeral flowers". What would it have cost him to have said "We grow on Life's tree as ephemeral flowers." ? Completely different, and optimistic.
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Littlestone
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Re: On Death's tree
Sep 23, 2006, 08:59
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What would it have cost him to have said "We grow on Life's tree as ephemeral flowers." ?
Ah... but don't you think that 'Death's tree' taps into the subconscious, with echoes of hangings, human sacrifices and the deaths of Odin and Christ? ("...Odin hangs from a tree as a sacrifice to himself has been suggested to reflect the crucifixion of Jesus, down to the detail of having his side pierced with a spear...").*
Dunno, you may be right (is the glass half-full or half-empty?). Might just be down to the weather, or chemicals in the brain :-)
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odin
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nigelswift
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Re: On Death's tree
Sep 23, 2006, 09:32
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"Ah... but don't you think that 'Death's tree' taps into the subconscious, with echoes of hangings, human sacrifices and the deaths of Odin and Christ?...."
Absolutely, but why tap into that when you can evoke an alternative view, also with Christian and Pagan - and humanist and evolutionary - echoes that the world doesn't end with our individual withering but goes on, and for every blossom that falls another will bloom. After all, its unprovable which is right, its only a way of looking at it, so why be nihilistic when you can be jolly?!
I reckon its his scandinavian darkness and melancholia coming out, maybe they all suffer from SAD and its down to the weather like you said. We'll all be battling that soon so I'm looking to you to select only happy clappy stuff for a while. ;) We need some megalithic limericks. Maybe you could start a Competition thread about them...
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Littlestone
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Megalithic limericks
Sep 23, 2006, 10:19
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We need some megalithic limericks.
Limericks! Now yer talkin!
There was an old sarsen from Salisbury... ;-)
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic limericks
Sep 23, 2006, 13:54
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There was an Old Sarsen on Salisbury,
That got lost on the road out of Avebury;
Said the Devil to 'e,
It's a posset for me,
Or I'll bury thee deep beneath Silbury.
(The Devil should sound like John Laurie :-)
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nigelswift
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Re: Megalithic limericks
Sep 23, 2006, 18:47
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:)
Said the megarak, “I think I’ve worked out
What A’bry was really about;
All things porcine
Inspired the design
‘Twas built as a pigpen no doubt.”
;)
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CianMcLiam
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Re: Megalithic limericks
Sep 23, 2006, 21:50
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Under the clouds, grey and sublime,
in a root and branch strangle-like vine,
two stones or three? It's not so easy to tell,
but oh, for neglecting them,
some are sure bound for hell?
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic limericks
Sep 24, 2006, 07:05
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:-)
The pigpen at Avebury were a goodun
it came to an end of a sudden;
The chief priest he did say,
tis better this way,
it's kebabs from now made o' mutton.
I'm going to stop now - I can hear the groans from here :-)
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nigelswift
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Re: Megalithic haiku
Sep 24, 2006, 07:56
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Stone fingers point back
To a past that is present
Gnarled twisters of time
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Littlestone
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Re: Megalithic haiku
Sep 24, 2006, 08:39
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That's very good Nigel. The first megalithic haiku perhaps?
Though non-megalithic, this by Kobayashi Isa, is still my favourite (written on the death of his son).
Tsuyu no yo wa
Tsuyu no yo nagara
Sarinagara
The world of dew
Is a world of dew
An yet, and yet
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