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2015, 7*, being, clouds, communication, creativity, flag, Herstmonceux Castle, listening, metaphor, orange, passing, patience, realisation, rose, sculpture, smell, stone, talking, thinking, time, writing
we talked, you have to listen
to the stone, said the sculptor,
you have to have the patience to
start and the patience to stop;
like working with a blank page,
I said; “but the page was not
formed by weight of time,” I
thought, cleverly doing myself
out of a metaphor; I wandered
on and stopped to smell the
orange rose and noticed the
clouds drift heavy and close
above the nations’ flags, to
realise I was wrong to equate
the stone with paper …
the second of four in the Herstmonceux Triptych (uh oh); on this day Hilary Manuhwa was exhibiting his works in the grounds of the castle; we had a lovely scattery conversation under the windy trees; have a look at cultureinstone if you are interested
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being & stone wormhole: may the supreme and precious jewel bodhichitta … // … take birth where it has not yet done so … // … where it has taken birth may it not decrease … // … but may it increase infinitely
clouds & passing wormhole: occa / s / i // o / n / a // l // l // y
communication & time wormhole: pine // gladioli // [&] wisteria
creativity wormhole: No
listening wormhole: returning home handsome
orange wormhole: 1968 – orange sand and mauve mist
realisation wormhole: comfy
smell wormhole: that comicbookshop … // … in dreams
talking wormhole: to rescue something
thinking wormhole: was there a moon / on the alleyway wall / confused in front of / the city skyline?
writing wormhole: holiday
equate
weight
wait
just a
darned
minute….
Aaah…yes…beautiful work.
us and the stone-workers
doing similar work?
me thinks so.
and so apparently did Mr. Graves:
“A poem is nonetheless present from the conception, from the first germ of it crossing the mind—it must be scratched for and exhumed.”
exhumed, yes, uncovered from the uncharted block….
…the block-heads?
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ah, yes, ‘The White Goddess’ is on my list-to-read-soon and very nearing the top
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gach! “uncarved block”.
Auto-correct invades!
Though the block is just
as much uncharted, I reckon.
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OK, ‘carved un-block’ -age
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I exhumed that nugget from this here:
https://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4178/robert-graves-the-art-of-poetry-no-11-robert-graves
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started it and bookmarked it
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Yes–the white goddess is on my long-list too.
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