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2013, 5*, awareness, being, breathing, coffee shop, earth, growth, Horsham, settling, Sylvia Plath, writing
preoccupied
can’t write
not flowing
wondering what line to
follow as rejoinder staring
off trying to be insightful losing
the thread fearful that
there never was a thread other
than the next conjunction …
… because I am not where I am
I am not in the ground I find myself in
smelling the air of the earth moving
through the fibre and round the flint
feeling my way through probe and take
as I rise to the surface to take the first breath
to breathe … there
a finished piece
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awareness & earth & settling wormhole: Birmingham / 030413
being wormhole: the bench / on the fourth sister from / Birling Gap before the / wind-brushed scrub and gorse / and the grey-blue sky / smoothed through the / fishtank-blue horizon to / grey-green sea
breathing wormhole: a few reflections on / keeping your cow / in a large meadow / while walking round / the streets of Horsham
coffee wormhole: portrait … // … reading
Horsham wormhole: dropped ’till you’ve shopped
Sylvia Plath wormhole: poets do neither report nor / walk around enrapt in transport but / ’tis when in writing their worlds are wrought
writing wormhole: ‘I can write …’
Quest Achieved!
Mundane moments
Inner struggle
Breath
Life made
By living
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sigh
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: )
I feel your sigh.
This makes me sigh with relief as well as with your poems feeling…
Thought you might like it:
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#inbox/13de8bd246ce38d0
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ngnuh?
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wrong link please ditch that one.
http://www.raptitude.com/2013/04/mindfulness-lives-in-the-sink/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Raptitudecom+%28Raptitude.com%29
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aha
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Just read “The Art of the Poetic Line” and this piece beautifully illustrates Longenbach’s concepts of the annotating line and the parsing line.
The first part uses the line wonderfully to convey the disjointed nature of over-wrought thought, using the line to break (*crack*) the phrases while the second parses the the thought smoothly….well-coveyed indeed sir, well-conveyed…
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oh, a Meg Ryan moment – yes, yes, yes – thank you very much for the close read; it really is uplifting and reassuring …
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