On to re-posting more poems with comments and expolanations of a sort. Here goes: GLASS The glass creation on the shelf In the early morning light refracts, transmutes The arriving light into changing colours and links That fade and reform with the slightest of gentle shifts. If you try to see through it the waving [...]
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I think these things are poems, though there’s a bit of damage and they’re of no great age. Start me at £20, anyone?
Posted by simon7banks on May 6, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/05/06/i-think-these-things-are-poems-though-thers-a-bit-of-damage-and-theyre-of-no-great-age-start-me-at-20-anyone/
Gloomy. Obscure. Negative. Vague. This sounds good…
I’m carrying on commenting on some poems I’ve already posted. They aren’t necessarily the best in my opinion, as some poems seem to me to be fairly obvious in their meaning and technique, and they could just possibly be good. The first one here, though, seems to me to be one of my best. UNDERWATER [...]
Posted by simon7banks on April 29, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/04/29/gloomy-obscure-negative-vague-this-sounds-good/
The Last Problem
Sherlock Holmes is a figure who has developed mythic force and a life outside the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. When Conan Doyle, wanting to move on, killed him off, he came back. He appears in countless cartoons, stories, film and TV adaptations. The struggle of Holmes against arch-villain and intellect of equal power [...]
Posted by simon7banks on April 26, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/the-last-problem/
Selected Poems of Simon Banks
(Well, about half my poems don’t make it on to the word file. They may survive in a handwritten notebook, or they may have been scrawled on a piece of paper and then I don’t rate them. From the word file a selection gets posted here – and from that, some which most seem to [...]
Posted by simon7banks on April 13, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/04/13/selected-poems-of-simon-banks-24/
Empire
I usually find I can’t sustain a long poem unless I’m on holiday alone, able to get away from unusual distractions, even though there will be other things to think about. That’s what happened here on a holiday. I’d felt I had a poem in me about the collapse of a glorious and cultured [...]
Posted by simon7banks on April 4, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/empire/
Sleeping
Back today to posting poems I haven’t posted before – so getting gradually nearer the present day. The first two lines of this one came to me as I was driving from Maldon to Colchester by a B road and I fashioned the rest of it while driving, with much mental repetition to try to [...]
Posted by simon7banks on March 28, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/sleeping/
Still Trying to Explain Myself
which if you go by the Latin origin, means “to lay myself out flat”. So that’s why it’s difficult. By the way, when I re-posted the last batch of poems, they somehow lost the gaps between the verses and also a distinctive layout for one poem (“Wolf”). I’ve now restored these features. For “Wolf” [...]
Posted by simon7banks on March 19, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/03/19/still-trying-to-explain-myself/
More explaining what I think I meant
In this post, the respected critic Simon Banks comments on the work of the obscure poet Simon Banks. In the last post I analysed, or at least commented on, Spirit Mountain and Knight at Arms. Now, proceeding from the earliest poems posted here towards the latest and selecting poems I think I’ve got something to [...]
Posted by simon7banks on March 17, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/03/17/more-explaining-what-i-think-i-meant/
Reaper
I met him at the corner of the street Standing behind a pillar, in a cloak; He raised his hand as if to say, “I know you. We have corresponded. I’ll meet you Again.” I went away Smiling. This poem was originally called “Unhorsed” and there must have been a reason for that, [...]
Posted by simon7banks on March 14, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/03/14/reaper/
