nigelswift
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Veronica Milvus : Arbor Low
Mar 10, 2009, 06:50
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I agree, it's getting hard to know what has/hasn't been posted. Someone needs to spend a couple of months indexing them all. ;)
Anyway, I rather like this -
http://www.greatwriting.co.uk/content/view/17394/78/
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Littlestone
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Edited Mar 10, 2009, 09:09
Re: Megalithic poems: Nigel Blackwell
Mar 10, 2009, 09:07
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Thanks for that swc - along with the daubing of yellow paint on the stones a couple of years back, the burning of the visitors' shed was another sad episode in the recent history of the Rollright Stones - almost as if someone bears a specific grudge against the place.
Don't worry that it's not a poem but a song - there are a couple more songs here, along with some very nice pieces of prose.
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Littlestone
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Edited Mar 10, 2009, 09:20
Re: Veronica Milvus: Arbor Low
Mar 10, 2009, 09:17
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nigelswift wrote:
Yes, I agree. M'be we could ask the eds if they could give us the key to this one thread and then someone could make a start :-) Mind, the eds did sort some of it out a couple of years ago. The heading to each new poem being Author: Poem Title - like wot you've got for this one. That helps a lot if you're looking for a specific poet.
Nice poem by the way.
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Trevor
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Re: Peter Proletarius
Mar 10, 2009, 13:16
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Thanks. I tried to add the comment via my google account but it said only team members could comment - so yes - please add the comment to the blogger page. Thanks a lot. Trevor
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Littlestone
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Re: Peter Proletarius
Mar 10, 2009, 14:20
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Comment duly added here - http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html
Let me know if you want anything changing or adding.
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thesweetcheat
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Re: Megalithic poems: Nigel Blackwell
Mar 13, 2009, 19:44
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Littlestone wrote: Thanks for that swc - along with the daubing of yellow paint on the stones a couple of years back, the burning of the visitors' shed was another sad episode in the recent history of the Rollright Stones - almost as if someone bears a specific grudge against the place.
Oh my god, I never thought of that. Either Nigel Blackwell is prescient (like Mark E Smith!) or he came and did it himself...
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nigelswift
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Juleigh Howard-Hobson:Coming Upon A Stone Circle..
Mar 19, 2009, 16:24
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http://www.strongverse.org/poems/howard-hobson_juleigh.html
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Littlestone
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Re: Juleigh Howard-Hobson:Coming Upon A Stone Circle..
Mar 19, 2009, 20:57
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nigelswift wrote:
Thanks Nigel, that's a stunner. The author has given her permission for it to go up on the Meg Poems blog so, as soon as it's up, I'll let ya know (it is, of course, about Avebury).
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Littlestone
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Re: Juleigh Howard-Hobson:Coming Upon A Stone Circle..
Apr 02, 2009, 11:22
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nigelswift wrote:
Thanks for posting that Nigel, the poem is now up on Megalithic Poems here - http://megalithicpoems.blogspot.com/
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Littlestone
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Shuntaro Tanikawa: One of the Haniwa
Apr 15, 2009, 21:34
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All emotions as well as quiet,
moss-covered Time
are raining behind your face,
which bears the weight
of two thousand years
behind your deep eyes.
Your mouth is tightened
by a great secret.
You do not cry or laugh
or become angry because
you are always crying,
laughing and angry.
You do not have thoughts
or feelings. You absorb those
continuously. Then they
precipitate in you forever.
Born directly out of the earth,
you were a human thing
before human beings.
There was a shortness
in one of God's breaths,
and therefore, incomplete,
you can take pride
in a beautiful simplicity
and health.
You store away the universe.
Shuntaro Tanikawa
(Translated by Diane Furtney and Asuka Itaya)
"During the pre-Buddhist Kofun period in Japan (ca. A.D. 250-ca. 600), the huge, round burial mounds of the ruling military elite were surrounded by unglazed clay figurines along the perimeters (“haniwa” = “clay rings”). Two to four feet high, these symbolic sculptures were shaped like horses, houses, ships, pillows, fans, sunshades or, more often, armed and helmeted male or female warriors."
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