Littlestone
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Re: Quoit
Mar 31, 2008, 21:27
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Go away for a while and the poems fall into this 'long stash' -
Qual e' colui che somniando vede,
che dopo 'l sogno la passione impressa
rimane, e l'altro a la mente non riede,
cotal son io...*
:-)
Thanks to Chris for your Quoit and 1&1 poems. Welcome Psychicmaster, and thanks to Moss for Jeremy Hooker's Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant... All duly added to the stack.
* http://www.themodernantiquarian.com/forum/?thread=23046&message=259467
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baza
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Re: Thomas Wharton
Apr 01, 2008, 18:28
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http://ia350642.us.archive.org/2/items/shortpoetry_043_librivox/sonnet_stonehenge_wharton_bn_64kb.mp3
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moss
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Re: Found Objects by Jeremy Hooker
Apr 10, 2008, 12:59
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Here is another poem to add to the list, it is from Jeremy Hooker's "Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant; The giant in question being the Cerne one. There are many poems in the book as the giant muses on the passing of time, and I note that the last time this book came out of the library was in 1992 which is rather a shame....
Found objects
A reindeer bone carved
In the reindeer's likeness
Saddle quern
Loom-weight
Spindle whorl.
A chalk phallus
A lump of chalk
With heavy curves bearing
The image of woman.
A necklace with blue beads
of Egyptian faience, black ones
of Kimmeride shale.
Slingstone
Cannon ball
Cartridge.
A phallus carved on the church wall.
A statuette of the virgin.
A coin worn headless,
with a disarticulate horse
Cartwheel
Crankshaft
flash bulb
a bust of the death-god
cast in imperishable alloy.
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moss
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Edited Apr 10, 2008, 13:09
Re: Found Objects by Jeremy Hooker
Apr 10, 2008, 13:08
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Another to add to the list; it comes from Jeremy Hooker's "Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant" (he's the Cerne one) too many to add here, but its funny a chalk giant talking to himself all through the centuries, he's not too keen on being scoured either....
A reindeer bone carved
In the reindeer's likeness
Saddle quern
Loom-weight
Spindle whorl.
A chalk phallus
A lump of chalk
With heavy curves bearing
The image of woman.
A necklace with blue beads
of Egyptian faience, black ones
of Kimmeride shale.
Slingstone
Cannon ball
Cartridge.
A phallus carved on the church wall.
A statuette of the virgin.
A coin worn headless,
with a disarticulate horse
Cartwheel
Crankshaft
flash bulb
a bust of the death-god
cast in imperishable alloy.
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Littlestone
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Edited Apr 10, 2008, 18:59
Re: Found Objects by Jeremy Hooker
Apr 10, 2008, 17:23
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Thanks for that moss.
See that Jeremy Hooker has also published selections of writings by Richard Jefferies and Wilfred Owen. More about him here - http://www.enitharmon.co.uk/authors/viewAuthor.asp?AID=26 and here at http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoem.do?poemId=6418
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gjrk
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Edited May 23, 2008, 22:51
The Great Leader
Apr 16, 2008, 22:19
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With thanks to Littlestone for the prompt and Persephone for the scissors:
The Great Leader (A Passage Tomb at Duntryleague, County Limerick)
An eye on the hilltop, bristling with trees,
whose dark lashes blink in the shuddering breeze -
a lingering witness of a day long past,
when that petrified carcass first rose from the grass.
It waited for legends to grow in the tomb
and pulse through this salmon-flesh quartz-speckled room
where I sit dreaming of spines of stones,
of flakes of life once picked from their bones.
Mixed with soil in a corn-coloured powder,
Olill Olum lies, the people's great leader.
"Place me on high, over the valley's soft breath,
where I can see and be seen, even in death."
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Seph
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Re: The Great Leader
Apr 24, 2008, 15:54
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Just as commanding as the first say I read it! Great great job GK. Deeply poignant, selfless, and respectful. Brill.
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gjrk
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Re: The Great Leader
Apr 24, 2008, 22:32
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Thank you! That means an awful lot, coming from you. Now, what have you done with my bushel? Please bring it back...
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gjrk
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Garryglass
May 18, 2008, 22:35
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Didn't expect to be back so soon, but I visited a site on Saturday that was almost completely destroyed early in the 20th century and the one remaining stone has now been overgrown and abandoned. It stuck in my head since, you know, the sadness of it. Anyway, here goes:
Please won't you grind me from this ground?
I can't hear them. Are they gone?
A last dance made holy by the flames.
A last breath made sacred by the bonds.
Please, it's the dark that's choking me.
I can't see. Where are they gone?
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Littlestone
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Re: Garryglass
May 19, 2008, 08:56
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gjrk wrote: Didn't expect to be back so soon, but I visited a site on Saturday that was almost completely destroyed early in the 20th century and the one remaining stone has now been overgrown and abandoned. It stuck in my head since, you know, the sadness of it. Anyway, here goes:
Please won't you grind me from this ground?
I can't hear them. Are they gone?
A last dance made holy by the flames.
A last breath made sacred by the bonds.
Please, it's the dark that's choking me.
I can't see. Where are they gone?
Thanks for that g - excellent. Let me know if you've got a pic to go with it and I'll put it up on Meg Poems. Put one up there yesterday by Yeats, with one of Ken's stunning photos to accompany it (thanks for that Ken). Both here at http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/ if anyone's interested.
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