Thursday, December 12, 2013
Well, I'm back...
I've reveled in reading some of the blogs and bloggers I've missed the past couple of weeks, and will be reading more shortly. A big thanks and tip o' the big feathered hat to all of you who kept in touch by email during the Blackout! The Great Arctic Freeze has relented, it is in the 50sF today, and balmy even with snow and ice still on the ground, especially where the sun don't shine. It's a relief to turn the heat low again, and not hear it coming on, burning money, every 20 minutes. Our...
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Monday, November 25, 2013
Pitchforks and Hammer-handles
Years ago, when Charlie was in high school, he used to walk every day to school, about a mile and a half or maybe two. He liked walking. He'd walk in any weather. One day, a car pulled up beside him, and the man inside, who happened to be one of our Washington State legislators, took the time to tell Charlie how he admired him for walking each and every day, even when "it's raining pitchforks and hammer-handles!" And that's where the name of his band came from.
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Dark passage behind the moon...
Two days from now, so they say, my blogit account closes. If you miss me, there is plenty to read in the past postings of every thread, and plenty of links to photos in Flickr, too. Email, too. I'll have those two weeks to feed Madame LaDarque and all the birds that have been showing up. There is the deal I made with my landlord, that I will paint the ugly garage to make that space more respectible, and take the cost of paint and supplies off next month's rent. If the weather warms a bit, I will...
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Sunday, November 24, 2013
Medusa
This is the last of my mythic poems, so far, and my favorite of the bunch. It came out of researching the demi-god, Medusa--I forget why I needed to--and discovering surprising things. Kindly pardon the final exercise of poetic license: It does get the point across. MEDUSA O maid, you once were lovely, full of grace, and named for Wisdom in eternal female form-- Metis, Maat, Medha the names you bore... But the passing generations, reshaping and restructuring the norm, made you over as a thing to...
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Saturday, November 23, 2013
Did someone mention Venus...?
On The Half-Shell Out of the sea on rising foam Venus emerges, makes herself at home, and the Gods all pause a moment to look and admire and plan... and their canny brains cook... The Goddesses, too-- they look and they see a sister to them and a rival-to-be... For the proper attentions, there must always be, to Wisdom, and to Fidelity. And Discord smiles to see this birth: Her job's secure forever on Earth!
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Thursday, November 21, 2013
Another one...
It is white out there on the ground today, and that may be so for the next couple of days. Every weather forecast says different things as to highs and lows, so there's naught to do but wait and see what happens. Meanwhile... Here is another of my classical/mythical poems. This was inspired by a challenge to write a poem about a painting. The work was an abstract by Henri Matisse. Here is a very interesting commentary on that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLu07Iyg32Q If I had researched it at...
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Wednesday, November 20, 2013
More of the Bull and more, besides
Thanks, everyone, for your comments, critiques and compliments on LABYRINTH! Charlie revealed to me last night that he is actually using the poem in his production, having it spoken by the Fates. He has chosen to cut out the last line as being not quite the tone the show is going for, which I understand... but I am wondering if it is complete without some last line. What do you think? A couple of comments were about the use of a rude word. Truth is, that word in that place did what I put it...
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Tuesday, November 19, 2013
The Bull of Knossos
...the production my lad Charlie is preparing was inspired, in part, by Mary Renault's novels based on the ancient myth of Theseus and the Minotaur: THE BULL FROM THE SEA and THE KING MUST DIE. Another source of his inspiration is a poem I wrote a while back, based on the same myth, and because CCT said such nice things about the poem I posted here about 6 pages back, I am posting that one here: LABYRINTH In the half-lit twistings, turnings... Stink of bull shit... Heaven's burnings in the gut,...
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Monday, November 18, 2013
Moon shots
It's still looking pretty big, and I am thinking, what with the moon setting near dawn, a lunar eclipse is only a month or two away. http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ One reward for waking before dawn is being on hand for moments like the one this morning, watching the moon setting behind the Front Range.
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Sunday, November 17, 2013
We have doves--
They are ring-necked doves, not mourning doves, as I'd thought from their constant, wistful cooing. Mourning doves, by the way, are also called turtledoves, as anyone who loves a good old English ballad has heard of. But our doves are not those. They have finally become bold enough to visit the feeding station on the back porch, but are still very shy when it comes to any attempt to get close, so these had to be photographed through the old class door, and all its scratches. There is something a...
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