Here's a few of my poetry snippets from 1993 -- 1995.
The first eight and the last two were originally posted
to the FTE list (devoted to Sarah McLachlan's music).
The first two are limericks.
March 22, 2003: I realize these aren't
terribly good poetry but I hope to do better during and
after my next waning crescent high. I will try to
craft some rhythmic poems and not get too overloaded
by the dance of wordplay as I was in June 1993. Also
I hope in the future my ability to improv lyrics to
instrumental celtic music will come back and if so
I may invest in a small portable tape recorder so that
I won't forget the lyrics. Also I have done a few
more poems (more limericks, tapered poems, etc) that
aren't included here yet, I may add them later.
1.
there is a human named Sarah
she belts out the truly rare ah
the trussed listener quivers
whenever she delivers
her passionate oral lay, raw
2.
this child of McLachlan
fortified by strong djinn
braves web of sea and leaf
breaks bonds of pain and grief
sings words of earth cracklin'
3. (I don't think I knew of Herne before this)
May Day, SOS
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fire, warm my hagrrrl [this i juggled on the computer, unfinished?]
from the sin gal lie
with hern's stole, passion
mouth ice, river breaks
...
4. (inspired by a pencil and by Sarah McLachlan's 27th birthday)
HB
Homer's binder
Helen's bounty
Heaven's blessings
Horny Bridgett
etc.
Happy birthday
5.
freedom sessions
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Free dom in a trice
Sessions with S-hrink
Goode volume, melts ice
Hold on for dawn's pink
6.
a pack of cards
the joker missing
seven of hearts
prepare to ring
7.
no rhythm in me tonight,
so I won't leech-poemize
no tales of mountain passes
no fire of token grasses
no sticking to m'lass's ___
soon time to drop my contacts
and submit to sleep's time ax
8.
Subject: gracefull fall of nec.king swan?
This was supposed to be shaped like a swan.
dark Ness:
if you want me to GO
i'll GO ...
fall, from G race
floating, free fall
o
v
Gee, Ohh.. be well, comely maiden
9. This is from my June 1993 high, when I went overboard with
juggling letters on the computer. And at the time I
didn't know that OIU and IOW are names of the divine.
This is partly influenced by the song Wild Rover and
by Poe's The Raven (Nevermore). It wasn't influenced
by Joyce's Finnegan's Wake since I hadn't looked at that
up to then.
...FrEE_Lancers' G_yNhAME G_naw f/l/NAmiss, NuNe our Never 'n MOreo oo
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OUIow, the uni-verse, L.whee DRUInk-rD
aura FU-syZY, G_ee, circle-T P/ToeMa-knEE
dense eNFanTime 'round T'Wean dark, from light
Dis lex 'ick T-waIsted AC-Scent PR-One to M/LIce
S/B hare, leaf is / all re but-t
fruit loops chopped, sum bits dropped, sLaphter and PneUNs
a par fait danSH Z\'est nu f(1) T fore too
Chi/me dark to light C/Home light to dark _ sea, ole Port 'eh
have & helf, black et tan,
wHEY t' fur the rigged barE, tinders of nut and dew.
onDe leFt le femME noIre BB uRe gidde
all weigh fael sLlabelLs
10. (from my July 1994 high, which was not as connected as
some of the others since it started the day before new
moon and I had a fair bit of alcohol and pulled an
all-nighter on newsgroups)
e.g., (to sci.astro, on jupiter impact):
Sounds like a low cal cometh to me,
And pubs in BC should turn on CBC.
To hear the hissed images, whee
Big red spots seen by mote notary
11.
maybe a serious raddish got translated
by a redish series to a red Serius
which later was found not to be read
but did have a serius radius
oh, no?
12.
On Zenna Henderson's books on The People (which someone else
described, in which the word platt is a magical working of
weather, for example; I haven't read them yet):
to a young platter
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when you platt
you are platted
and unless careful
can get splatted
13.
poemeter
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Otherwise random mistakes
evolve toward the pathes
that miss takes
14. (from September 1994 high)
Math's dictionary [Math is in Welsh tradition the little bear in the sky
---------------- or a great druid, mentor of Gwydion]
lemniscate time
liscuute space [replace with lituus space?]
lisajous with us [actually spelled lissajous]
15. (from Sept94)
P oh -- a short tree!
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a chord struck in the mind
jewels placed upon paper
ring echos in you, reader
laugh cry a geas from ages
emergent evolution?
16. from FTE
pass I on
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words in the sky
music in earth
me in between
song to give birth
17. from FTE, not really a poem
Victoria: "Where the cluck are my secrets?"
Me: "Here, here, in this precious little bit of you,
rub this dull lamp to get a bright spear for
your sacred mound, and secrets to share" :-)
Here are two taper poems I posted to FTE on Sept. 22, 1995.
The first one was partly inspired by the fact that
Blue Rodeo were visiting Sarah.
18.
There was a young woman who lived in a shoe
in each of the toes, a candle of blue
iron linked, so no spills would she rue
each flamed by the phoenix anew.
By this light she sipped home brew
called up her lusty lou
she said "i love you"
he cried "me too"
their love grew
and grew
ooh
19.
baker's dozen (13 lines)
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Rhi, [This is a celtic short form for the goddess Rhiannon]
knot I,
eye to eye,
and thigh to thigh
our love draws us nigh
passion's flames growing high
arms around, no longer shy
love to love you, we softly sigh
lips moistly conjoined, begin to fry
and begin to travel, some spots to try
there is a young couple who live in no lie [standup comics?]
their love witnessed only by the earth sea and sky
perhaps two will become two and a half by and by
I know they are pretty corny but I thought I'd share them again.
Also I guess Rhi should be pronounced Ree not Rye. Oh wait I
guess I was referring to IWRY a bit.
20. (two acrostics, posted to pendulum mailing list in Jan95)
Fashionable
Underwear
Conceals
Kali-Mary
Fortunately, there's the rub,
Under hill, back of beyond.
Call to it, lost little scrub
Key the lock, set right the bond
Also here are some song snippets. At times I have
improvised several verses in my head to live instrumental
celtic music but haven't remembered them or written them
down or recorded them
1. to Aunty Mary (Cock of the North)
The best time I had for this was when Jim Fidler
( http://www.jimfidler.com ) was doing it on his guitar
at Wommen' Jammin' at The Fat Cat one night. I did
several verses in my head and then forgot them. But
the chorus or first verse I think was.
"Aunty Mary, had a canary, up the leg of her drawers [trad line]
The canary said to the worm, won't you come for tea
The worm replied, sure my dear, if you kiss me 1-2-3"
But anyway I had several more verses but I have forgotten them.
I think they were about sailing around the world and coming
back again and having a Time (a party in Newfoundland).
I'll try to reconstruct them later.
2. To the Pretty Peg Reels, the first track on side two of
Altan: Harvest Storm
cathy barrett, lost her drawers
in the middle of the night
oh my, twas quite a sight
birthday happy, from her roars
3. To Jim Rumboldt's Tune, fast version, by Rufus Guinchard
(Actually I should probably write a song about Jim Rumboldt
but instead did one about Rufus Guinchard.)
Here's to Rufus Guichard, he's a lion of a man.
Rufus was a fisher and a trapper and a farmer
Rufus was a husband and a lover and a son
He played the tunes all night long in Daniel's Harbour
To keep the people dancing until the morning came
(Actually that is from memory, not from my files,
and I would have to listen to the tune a bit in
order to reconstruct it, plus I plan to read his
biography, and there might have been "logger" in there.
So the above is only a partial reconstruction.)
4. To a tune I thought was Farewell to Erin but may have
been something else.
"Cast her off, turn around, we're leaving town without a sound..."
5. To another tune which I will recognize if I hear it again.
"Cast a net into the night, pull the line, pull it tight..."
So anyway though on occasion I have done several verses in my head
I haven't remembered or tape recorded or paper or computer
recorded much yet. But I expect this ability to return when
the low years end (during and after my next waning crescent high)
and/or when I come off the olanzapine (but will stay on lithium).
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