Littlestone
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Re: Richard Jefferies: Story of My Heart
Oct 10, 2006, 08:55
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Aye, it's a fair bit of writing and no mistake - the line between poetry and prose gone.
What you say about him being from Wiltshire, and the place soaking into him is absolutely true - it happens to most of us. I think it's the rolling landscape there that is maternally soft, welcoming and uplifting. There's a plaque to Jefferies at Liddington Castle that reads -
LIDDINGTON HILL
THE HILL LOVED OF
RICHARD JEFFRIES
AND
ALFRED WILLIAMS*
and a little museum to him at Coate Water. I used to push me brother in a pram down to Coate, and we'd sit by the water and feed the ducks. In the distance you can see Liddington Hill and Castle - that, by the way, is my first memory of an ancient site (in this life anyway ;-)
* http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/site/3080
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Littlestone
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Re: The Future
Oct 10, 2006, 10:42
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TMA Ed wrote: As has been suggested, it might be useful to have the titles/poets as part of the post headings. When I have a moment I will try to change any that are not clear.
TMA Ed.
Crikey, that was quick! Thanks, much better now.
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goffik
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Re: A plea
Oct 10, 2006, 10:58
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Mr Hamhead wrote: It could always be flagged up on here...but whathisface would not have to read them.
Alright, Mr H?
He doesn't have to read them anyways! That's the beauty of keeping them all on one thread! :o)
Sorry, LS... ;o)
G x
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moss
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Edited Oct 10, 2006, 11:05
Under the Hills Near the Morava River
Oct 10, 2006, 11:04
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She lay there midst
Mammoth, reindeer, and wolf bones;
Diadem of fox teeth round her brow
Ocher under her hips
26,640 plus or minus 110 years before "now".
Burnt reindeer-pelvis bone bits
in her mouth,
Bones of two men lying by her side,
one each side.
Gary Snyder - Taken from Mountains and Rivers Without End
p.s.Could'nt fit Snyder's name into topic title - only allowed certain number of letters.
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Littlestone
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Re: Under the Hills Near the Morava River
Oct 10, 2006, 11:26
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Ah, good stuff, and nice to cross paths with an old acquaintance again under the banner of poetry.
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Mr Hamhead
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Re: A plea
Oct 11, 2006, 07:17
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No offence meant...just couldn't remember your name at the time.
Mr Hamshed
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nigelswift
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Norman MacCaig: A Man in Assynt:
Oct 12, 2006, 11:54
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Who possesses this landscape?
The man who bought it or
the poacher staggering downhill in the early morning
with a deer on his back?
Who possesses this landscape?
the man who bought it or
I who am possessed by it?
False questions, for
this landscape is masterless
and intractable in any terms
that are human.”
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nigelswift
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Norman MacCaig: Treeless Landscape
Oct 12, 2006, 12:03
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Something to do with time has all to do
With shape and size. The million shapes of time,
Its millions of appearances are the true
Mountain and moor and tingling water drop
That runs and hangs and shakes time towards a stop.
This and his other poem have been carved into blocks of stone at Knockan Crag.
http://www.knockan-crag.co.uk/art.asp
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Littlestone
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Re: Norman MacCaig: Treeless Landscape
Oct 12, 2006, 15:28
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Lovely.
I like coming here, it's like sitting by a stream on a sunny day :-)
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ryaner
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Re: Norman MacCaig: Treeless Landscape
Oct 12, 2006, 16:09
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Littlestone wrote: Lovely.
I like coming here, it's like sitting by a stream on a sunny day :-)
… after munchin on some of the local hallucinogens, maybe. ;-)
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