Is There / Life on Mars? – poewieview #32

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'scape, 1999, 5*, birds, Bowie, branches, chirp, east, grey, growing, leaves, life, Mars, sky, sunset, tin

                                Is There
                                Life on Mars?

                      new leaves
                      on new branches
                      grown

                      sideways and pointing
                      east

                      through the old
                      branches the sun

                      sets
                      polishing the tin sky
                      otherwise

                      seamlessly grey and the birds
                      chirp

 

sky as high as the world – Life on Mars?

Read the collected movements in David Bowie: Movements in Suite Major

 

 

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birds wormhole: the ancient tree
Bowie wormhole: Life on Mars? – poewieview #31
branches wormhole: reaching branch
grey & life wormhole: carpet worn / to the backing – poewieview #30
leaves wormhole: Lapping Reflections [Deep Within Waters] by Mark L. Redford – moment
sky wormhole: The Boats of Vallisneria by Michael J. Redford – On Doing Nothing
sunset wormhole: “walking …”

 

“walking …”

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'scape, 2013, afternoon, Birmingham, blue, Bournville, city, green, grey, housing estate, lamp post, rain, sky, steel, sunset, walking

 

 

 

                           walking
                     in the afternoon
                     after the rain
                along the green in the housing estate
                     above the city

                     a single
                grey lamp post rose into the steel blue sky
                     but was not yet alight
                     where the sun had
                     already set

 

 

 

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afternoon wormhole: Sunday afternoon
blue & city & green wormhole: the silent night of the Batman
grey wormhole: clouds
lamp-post wormhole: Christmas lights / around the lamp post
rain & sky wormhole: … the discipline of shamatha / the waft of vipashyana
sunset wormhole: Compartment C, Car 193, 1938
walking wormhole: portrait: / two pigeons

 

Compartment C, Car 193, 1938

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'scape, 1938, 2015, awareness, bridge, Edward Hopper, light, reading, river, sunset, train, travelling, woman, years

 

 

 

                      Compartment C, Car 193, 1938

                                the woman reading
                                in the compartment
                                was a student of pivot
                                and cross-reference;

                                while the trajectory
                                paralleled the river,
                                it bisected the bridge
                                at sunset: the light

                                to read came not
                                from the lamp but
                                the heightened pers-
                                pective of traverse

 

 

 

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awareness wormhole: I survived
bridge & light & reading & train & woman wormhole: com- / mute
Edward Hopper & river wormhole: Le Pont des Arts, 1907
travelling wormhole: sit / and move
years wormhole: Le Pont des Arts, 1907

 

the echo of / a small box

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1993, air, clouds, cold, drops, echo, grey, open, sunset, windows

 

 

 

                                the echo of
                                a small box

                                through drops
                                down the window

                                to one side the
                                grey cloud to the

                                other the sunset
                                and the cold air

                                through the window
                                which won’t close properly

 

 

 

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air wormhole: cloud
clouds wormhole: a maturity
echo wormhole: tag cloud poem VI – anyone’s eyes
grey wormhole: sitting up in bed s i m u l t a n e o u s l y
open wormhole: Jean Miller kissed Salinger
sunset wormhole: the strange mauve relief of / this burgundy-gritty encounter
windows wormhole: oh-pen too

 

the strange mauve relief of / this burgundy-gritty encounter

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2013, 5*, Belmer, books, burgundy, Carol, Dali, eyes, John Blofeld, Jung, karma, Leicester, love, mauve, opening, paranoiac criticism, plants, purple, reading, spore, sunset, synchronicity, Tara, UB40, windows

                                                    (Food for Thought)

                      in the university library
                           Jung’s synchronicity opened
                      deep through the pages to Dali’s
                           paranoiac criticism opening the eye
                      to Blofeld’s lone hymning of the goddess Tara
                           beguiled by Belmer’s illustrations –

                           the working through of karma?
                      all while the plants outside wafted their spore
                           through the high open windows
                      which caught behind my glasses as the sun
                           started its purple descent
                      when I could renew the strange mauve relief of
                           this burgundy-gritty encounter

 

 

 

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books wormhole: grammar
burgundy wormhole: flat
C & Leicester & love & mauve & sun wormhole: we // walk
eyes wormhole: to share
purple wormhole: August / Adventure
reading wormhole: reading // unstirred
windows wormhole: waiting

 

we // walk

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2013, 5*, Carol, cars, evening, Leicester, love, mauve, motorway, roads, shops, sunset, UB40, walking, work

                                              (25%)

                                we
                      come alive in the evening
                      after the work is done
                      and the shops have closed
                      and while the cars queue home

                                walk
                      up the long long road rising
                      pleasantly to the mauve sunset
                      and the motorways reaching

                                in all direction

 

 

 

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C & Leicester & love wormhole: bell
cars wormhole: ‘hand / in hand …’
evening wormhole: skyline / of the evenings
mauve wormhole: blue and green / a l l s  o  r  t  s
motorway wormhole: beep
roads wormhole: flat
shops & walking wormhole: where to find it
sunset wormhole: ruddy pink
work wormhole: just what

 

ruddy pink

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'scape, 2012, 5*, combe end, evening, houses, pink, roads, sunset, windows

 

 

 

                                                      up the road
                                                      as the evening fell

                                                      even though
                                                      the sunset

                                                      ruddy pink

                                                      was in all the windows
                                                      of all the houses

                                                      it was still
                                                      bloody cold

 

 

 

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combe end & roads wormhole: ‘glints off …’
evening wormhole: JJ Cale / in a coffee shop?
house wormhole: smalltown / Derbyshire
pink wormhole: handsome
windows wormhole: house / opposite