So it’s important and you ought to look at it seriously. OK, I’m being ironic: putting something boring, uninspired, mannered or prancingly self-indulgent in short lines in a nice shape and calling it poetry and art doesn’t make it any more worthy of attention than anything else anyone writes or says. Still, you might [...]
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Apparently anything can be poetry, so it seems safe to say this is
Posted by simon7banks on May 12, 2012
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The Herald of Free Enterprise
THE HERALD OF FREE ENTERPRISE On 6 March 1987 the car ferry “Herald of Free Enterprise”, owned by Townsend Thoresen (later P&O) capsized outside the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, causing 193 deaths. A number of safety measures that would have prevented the disaster had not been taken because they were seen as low priority or [...]
Posted by simon7banks on May 4, 2012
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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
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If we deconstruct these poems, we can put all the letters in a different order!
OK, I know “deconstruct” doesn’t quite mean that, but it has a chilling, dehumanising sound. I don’t want to dehumanise my poems, though maybe throughhumanise them. Here’s some more with comment. DIGGING DOWN I have found an old guilt: By scrabbling in the dirt with callused hands Brushing away the low lying deposits Stories of [...]
Posted by simon7banks on April 17, 2012
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Well, among the multitude of possible interpretations of these obscure poems, these will do as well as any
and gain a modicum of credibility from originating with the writer. So here goes with some more old poems. TOMORROW After a month of night, a reddish moon Illuminates a new world, smoothes The slivers of metal, softens the swathes Of jagged concrete to A pebble beach. The clumps of bodies become [...]
Posted by simon7banks on April 5, 2012
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Of course, no-one, not even the “writer”, can “know” what the poem “means”, but still…
…academics can tie themselves in some fascinating knots and, it is even rumoured, disappear up their own theories. Here’s some more commentary on poems I’ve already posted: EDEN The fruit slipped ripe into the hand The hunting hard, but always good, The trees made shade to sleep within That was the Eden we once knew [...]
Posted by simon7banks on March 30, 2012
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This probably isn’t what I meant, if I meant anything, but you never know
So I’ll go on disinterring old posted poems and suggesting some context and meaning. Soon I’ll go back to new postings. By the way, I have a blog (http://sibathehat.blogspot.com) for everything non-literary, and the leading countries people are visiting the blog from are: Joint 1: U.K. and U.S.A. Vying for third place: France, Germany [...]
Posted by simon7banks on March 24, 2012
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Erm… I think I really meant…
So I’m carrying on commenting on some of my own poems already posted. These were written at a time when I was coming out of a period of great stress occasioned by a family illness. Writing such poems was part of the emergence from that period and they carry a certain bleakness as well as [...]
Posted by simon7banks on March 21, 2012
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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
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Apologia
If they come to us, amongst the stars or seaworms, Or tapping on a slab of rock that blocks a tunnel, And ask us what we have done, We will be able to answer them: We chose to wreck the web of life around us, We were amused to bleach the coral reefs And [...]
Posted by simon7banks on March 10, 2012
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