Day: January 25, 2017

May I feel it too?

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I am very self-absorbed.
Try using blotting paper  and stay dry

I fell into a reverie today
Did you get wet?

I was in a brown study all afternoon
Was it Gordon’s?

I  have made the world by my phantasies
Phantastic!

I  wonder if  a vibrator dries the washing.
No,it’s a maiden.
Mind your heads.
This is no the Tube you know.
Is it YouTube?
I have guessed, it’s an I tube.

My grandad had an outside lavatory till he died
Will there be indoor ones in heaven?
Crash
Grandad! You don’t open the back door in heaven.Was it not bolted?
You dug a  tunnel!You’re not a coal-miner anymore.
You want to go to Bethlehem? Through a tunnel? This is not the Holy Land.
You want to leave Gaza!How the hell did you get there?
On second thoughts, don’t tell me.
You were in Egypt?
You like pyramids!
I like men but I don’t build tunnels into their homes.
No,I build tunnels out!

I  have got more incontinent.
Do stop  admiring Europe

Why do the government tell us to eat more fruit and veg?
To help the Common Market!

Why do the government not have enough beds in hospitals?
They can’t all go to sleep at once!

I am feeling my age.
May I feel it too?

 

 

It helps the government to spy on you?

Chick pea pie and cats for the lively - Glimpses between the cracks:Alice's Looking Glass

 

1.It is useful to have a webcam because:

a] It is useful to comb your hair in front of it before you start writing
b] It helps the government to spy on you more cheaply and so reduces income tax.
c] It seemed a good idea at the time.

2.Public libraries are

a] Where rich people let you look at their books.
b] Where you may find a public convenience
c] A relic from our poverty-stricken past.

 

3. Britain is a rich country.So why do  we

a] Have no public conveniences
b]Have fewer public libraries.
c] Have so many old people living in cold houses?

Alfred pants on my head.

 

The doctor has strangled my genius
By giving me thyroxine insidious.
It makes me go shopping
And spend something whopping
I’m the lady who bought all those camellias!

 

Yes, doctors can  carry out tests
And prescribe twenty four dozen wool vests.
I wear one in bed;
Alfred pants on my head.
When will he give me a rest?

Can one buy woollen briefs for old men?
Lawyers could ask to foresee them.
Before they stand trial
They wear socks of lisle
Then they put on their top hats again

 

 

Confusion of our enemies with friends.

As foolish as to graze on sweet iced buns;
Confusion of our enemies with friends.
For we know  that life is harder than a pun
The sentences we write, we’d like to stun
In the future, payment will be grim.
On all we stole, the interest we shall lend.
Even if we have no loaded gun,
We shall in  these deep graves declare the end

Revisiting triolets

http://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/explore_obscure_triolet_atglance.htmltrio-2

The triolet consists of eight lines, with two rhymes and two repeating lines. The opening line repeats itself in the fourth and seventh lines, while the second and eighth lines repeat.The triolet resembles and precedes the rondeau as a written form, in part because rondeaux were exclusively performed as courtly folk songs until the 14th century. Conversely, triolet was purely literary and spoken. In a sense, the triolet is the poetic cousin of the rondeau, since both derived from the rondel.

Rhyme: abaaabab
Structure: Eight lines; opening line repeats in fourth and seventh lines; second and eighth lines repeat
Measure/Beat: Iambic tetrameter
Common Themes: Human folly, relationship, triumph, journey
Other Notes:
  • One of the most tight-knit structures of the Provencal poet-musician movement
  • Often dealt with light-hearted subjects
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Where did free verse start?

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http://www.webexhibits.org/poetry/explore_famous_free_background.html

 

Ancient roots.

While free verse seems modernistic, its roots go back to medieval alliterative verse and even to the Bible. The Bible’s “Song of Songs” is written in what we would now call free verse. Many of the earliest Ancient Greek poets wrote in lines unmeasured by syllables and beat while they were developing what would become lyric poetry. In later Ancient Greece and Rome, however, fixed forms such as the ode, epic, and a variety of measured lyric poetry ruled the literary land.

Walt Whitman

By the latter part of the 19th century, Walt Whitman had mastered free verse.

Modern interpretations.

The promise of irregular cadence continued to beckon unconventional and narrative poets, and began appearing as vers libre in the 19th-century French poetry of Jules Laforgue and Gustave Kant. Germany’s Johann Wolfgang von Goethe also experimented with free verse. By the latter half of the century, Walt Whitman had mastered the form, and bards such as Christina Rosetti, Robert Louis Stevenson, Charles Baudelaire, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and W.E. Henley were writing free verse. Still, it wasn’t until Richard Aldington used the term “free verse” in a 1915 anthology introduction that the form took an English name.

Yet, as T.S. Eliot warned, “No verse is free for the man who wants to do a good job.” While free verse is irregular, lyrical, and unmeasured by line counts and stanzas, metrical and rhythmic precision remain just as vital as in other poetic forms.

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With faith and trust, we show our human face

Though love is welcome when at first it dawns
And even when it ripens in the sun
Soon  may  come sensations  all forlorn
A dread that asks us what love might become.

For yearning as we do for hope and care
Yet don’t we fear to lose our private self?
And so to wonder,fearful, how we’ll fare
Blighting both our spirits and our health.

The risks of loss and gain are  not yet known
A judgement must be made on partial facts
To be at once too  trapped  and  too alone
To treat the other with  both truth and tact

With faith and trust, we show  our human face
And hope we each survive that sweet embrace

Bewildered by our contradicting aims

Hurt by lawless, lasting grief and pain
The image of  the refugee disdained
Shows again the face within his face;
And yet he  too is human  in embrace

Bewildered by our contradicting aims;
Obey our Christ or keep our wealth to arm
We too are nervous when we read
The lies of men whom we have picked to lead

Who has got the couragof true gaze
To see the truth and like Our Lord be flayed?
Who will risk rejection by the mass?
Far better to avert our eyes and pass.

No one is an island, John Donne says
The bell that tolls informs and shows our way.

 

 

 

Now, stay calm.It’s only a keyboard.It can’t bite you.

There are always uncountably many more subjects than we can study in a lifetime.Why?
If you can’t sleep,  then daydream all night.Enjoy thinking of all those kind people who passed their jeans on to you.
How many hours should we streak, doctor? 
I mean I’m gonna shriek, doctor.
Now, stay calm.It’s only a keyboard.It can’t bite you.
Don’t you understand, I want to panic! That’s why we need men.To hug us.
Did you say panic or Munich?Both seem relevant now.
As for Jerusalem, I wish it were here then the people in Israel/Palestine would have less to make trouble about.We could put the entire city into a new museum in Scotland.
Then if Trump moves the American Embassy there, it will be here,  if you see what I mean.
Then we can fight on the Temple Mount while admiring the golden Mask.
That wailing wall is just what we need now to frighten Theresa May.
Theresa Maybe?