Poems are back
Michael
trends: work which has been demanding ( what a shame that I have to
work for money, I say to myself frequently these days as if I were the
only one doing so. Ha!) And then I have had a long spell where most of
the poems I have been reading really did not move me and moreover
seemed like snippets of prose. Often insightful, or witty, or profound
or observant -- but prose snippets non the less. A poem needs to be
more than short prose broken into lines. At least for me. Sound,
images, line endings and line breaks, all the tool of the poet need to
work together. Oh well. Perhaps really I stopped posting poems because
I was not writing any myself. Any way I am back and will attempt to
both write and post.
Given that Emma and Steve are expecting their second child any day
now I thought I would resume with this from The Writer;s Almanac. Not
great but good. Appropriate. And so true.
The Alien
by Greg Delanty
I'm back again scrutinizing the Milky Way
of your ultrasound, scanning the dark
matter, the nothingness, that now the heads say
is chockablock with quarks & squarks,
gravitons & gravitini, photons & photinos. Our sprout,
who art there inside the spacecraft
of your ma, the time capsule of this printout,
hurling & whirling towards us, it's all daft
on this earth. Our alien who art in the heavens,
our Martian, our little green man, we're anxious
to make contact, to ask questions
about the heavendom you hail from, to discuss
the whole shebang of the beginning & end,
the pre?big bang untime before you forget the why
and lie of thy first place. And, our friend,
to say Welcome, that we mean no harm, we'd die
for you even, that we pray you're not here
to subdue us, that we'd put away
our ray guns, missiles, attitude and share
our world with you, little big head, if only you stay.
Barbara Helfgott Hyett (Poemworks)
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