20 Monday Feb 2017
Posted in Author, book, Books (the book), Poem, poetry
let me
have a word:
I love poems in books
with a picture of
the author
on the cover and
a blurb that tells us
what important
poetry it is
before we
have even
read a
word
have you
read a word?
17 Saturday Sep 2016
Posted in book, Books (the book), Poem, poetry, writing
his book was ripening
in his head rather
than on a tree or
on a shelf
the thoughts were coming
together, richly mellowing
the page crying
out to
be written on
24 Friday Jun 2016
Posted in Author, Books (the book), BREXIT, British, Dumbing down, Poem, poetry
take your
Goethe
you know what
you can do
with
your Dante, Cervantes
and Dumas
we have
our Shakespeare
which personally I have not
read but do
believe
is printed on softer
two-ply paper
19 Sunday Jun 2016
Posted in book, Books (the book), Poem, poetry
he used his books
to build a castle
arranged all his books
into a mosaic
made a giant stairway
leading up to
Heaven
as in a
Borges fairy tale
or
the Led Zeppelin song
21 Sunday Feb 2016
Posted in Author, Books (the book), classical, Creativity, digital age, Eternal eternity, Eternity/eternal, Iconic, Intellectual, Intertextual, Language, Learning, literary allusive, Medieval, metaphoric, metapoetic/metafictional, mythical/mythological, Nonlinear, philosophical, Poem, poetry, postmodern, Poststructuralism, Semiotic, The book, time and space (space/time), Transcendence, transformation, Value and meaning, wordplay, writing
POEM FOR UMBERTO ECO
there are no conspiracies
beyond what the style
and form an age dictates
it’s narrow parameters
the box it
has to think it
but which, great master of signs,
long ago shook yourself free of
and now, who would
argue against me, dispute
with me rhetorically, in
the Classical manner, if
I were to say
there you are with the
Roman poets, the Greek
historians, the Medieval
scholastics
looking down
which, as Einstein postulated,
is also looking
backwards, looking
forwards in space and time
envisioning (from position
of Olympian vantage) how
it looks at this point
at that point
the great game, the universal
fiction we mere
mortals have
only seen the horizon of
a single square page of
and you now
(this perhaps the
one true conspiracy)
closing the circle
of hyperreality
before (perhaps)
impulse to travel
13 Wednesday Jan 2016
Posted in book, Books (the book), Censorship, Poem, poetry, satire
We, 1984, Fahrenheit 451:
they are burning all
the great dystopian books
O.K.
not burning
just
raising the temperature
a little.
22 Tuesday Dec 2015
he read her book
inside out
and her
body
cover to
uncover
(very cover
best not
to
judge
by)
10 Saturday Jan 2015
read the book
stamp your boots
read
stamp
read
stamp
readstampreadstampreadstamp
stamp stamp stamp
no
contest really
05 Friday Dec 2014
Posted in absurdism, Books (the book), Creativity, film, Genre/form, Iconic, ironical/comic, Poem, poetry, popcultural, postmodern, relativistic, science fictional, The book, wordplay, writing
ran out of ideas
put on my Nike, my Puma,
my Reeboks, my Adidas
ran faster than Superman
when he
turned back time
but no ideas
nothing
beyond the comicbook genre
09 Sunday Nov 2014
What book are
they recorded in
not the bare bones
but of our
death experiences the graphic details
pictures, videos in
rich sound and colour
so many, a number
almost beyond counting,
especially in
the full flood of war?
