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
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/05/12/apparently-anything-can-be-poetry-so-it-seems-safe-to-say-this-is/
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/
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/
Spring Migrants
When the pack ice cracks When hostile green shoots break through the hard earth Snow whisks off like a white sheet to reveal Grassy mound, ruin, bare rock or field The wanderers’ ship will come Taking soundings slowly They will unload their cattle, cloth and pulleys Build their stony church and wooden houses When the [...]
Posted by simon7banks on January 15, 2012
http://simonsworlds13.wordpress.com/2012/01/15/spring-migrants/
