As/Is

7.11.2007

Tilt the Board

To wave on
coming broach the
tope with feeder
z ones be
clear of face,

watch full of
spacious under
penned Bermuda
in the squaline
sauce of pop
clipped sorghum baste

all tall configuredly
as haste makes
tone a gone
thing fingered to F#

you smooth your
way in to
a crowd
I shoulder this

I feast on
how inside the real
trade is midsummer
when the crooning

faults its way
to noon lone
pilgrims white of
shoulder when the room
stays full

the room so
full of you

posted by Sheila Murphy on Wednesday, July 11, 2007

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Thanks very much sidhe, s/he of the shee that is a faery Love. Ekphrasis i beleive is a new poetic term for calling out to an inaminate object, but in the bardic tradition has been around since day one, and is the basis of poetic fundamentalism, the prohpets and messiahs making it up for Love, uncaring who thinks what, and you are the first faery Love i used as the placebo to call to, an inanimate object sidhe of the murphy lore. Do you remember dearest sidhe, the long summer days two years ago when i learnt, silently from you, the inanimate silence guiding me, shiela the poet instinct said was true, one to imitate, learn from, follow till the denoument occured the day we posted within seconds of each other, each poem i wrote before that, done so in response to yours, looking for the pyschic trace of my own meagre efforts, in your text, and i realise now it was just ekprasis and thank you very much.

It aint hot here in Dub, but 16 degrees, thick steel web of all enveloping cloud, rain mesh container and franhly shee, a bit of a shite summer for exterior sun, but not the inner light of divinity i seek to sing of, Love..

# posted by  Coirí Filíochta on 12:59 PM

 

You heard, then, didn't you, this poem emerging directly upon my seeing your post not long before of 9th July. Thank you for your more-than-heaping gifts (plural, decidedly). Nothing of your work has even the merest shade of meagerness.

We're in the 40s here in the AZ desert, naturally (is that nature?) :)

# posted by  Sheila Murphy on 6:43 PM

 

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