tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post85724458277424970..comments2023-11-22T09:11:01.567+00:00Comments on George Szirtes: A Year Quite RoundGeorge Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-83730439500944244702012-01-16T08:45:11.416+00:002012-01-16T08:45:11.416+00:00Dick, many thanks. I'll pass your best wishes ...Dick, many thanks. I'll pass your best wishes on to Helen, who is recovering from her labours.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-5620021561642717322012-01-16T08:44:26.823+00:002012-01-16T08:44:26.823+00:00Coiri, you've lost me there. I wasn't foll...Coiri, you've lost me there. I wasn't following Carol in the Guardian there. Flattered to see lines and part lines of mine there, but am still at the very edge of a chasm of puzzlement.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-42151873184138811142012-01-16T03:02:14.726+00:002012-01-16T03:02:14.726+00:00Congratulations to Helen - she was in the 6th Form...Congratulations to Helen - she was in the 6th Form when I started at St Chris as Head of Drama - and to you on a fine poem.Dick Joneshttp://patteran.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-69263250650666742232012-01-15T19:53:39.054+00:002012-01-15T19:53:39.054+00:00So life's balloon deflates and just
as well yo...So life's balloon deflates and just<br />as well you’re born and grow seek<br /><br />the noble state reach a stable size<br /><br />the world meanwhile shows no sign<br />of surprise the clock moves on<br /><br />the hammer strikes a bell the hour<br />arrives with no fuss and goes more<br /><br />than you expect black holes and stars<br /><br />expanding galaxies are soon gone<br /><br />taking leave without a proper us<br />body time ourselves are clocks<br /><br />tight wound digital and analogue<br />spring not with it mechanicals<br /><br />fallible and we bust repair are<br />liable<br /><br />to rust, but frankly we’re not<br />bothered by what goes on around us<br /><br />these things our common ground<br />source its figure comes around<br /><br />our case darling round meant quite<br /><br />round this year at least balloons rage <br /><br />ballooned have been with life<br />not air the body-cage expands into,<br /><br />grand maternal mound it was since<br /><br />the beginning of the busy earth<br />when the earth was busy swelling<br /><br />continents seas & simian forebears<br />scampering down from trees who got<br /><br />upright to walk time's feet<br />measured through our own body at birth<br /><br />your planets now remain beyond us<br />certainly ya'll born that way we<br /><br />celebrate the usual way and year<br />by year look to mark the day loud<br /><br />celestial hymn, harp and horn<br />& all the brass cosmic wind, might<br /><br />blow a 'dinkli' verification word.<br /><br />Thanks for being a sport George. I don't know how it will read and will delete it if the Transcendentalist De Danann decide.Coirí Filíochtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-17747208376881954832012-01-15T19:50:09.958+00:002012-01-15T19:50:09.958+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Coirí Filíochtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-12002854483584803862012-01-15T19:42:55.021+00:002012-01-15T19:42:55.021+00:00I splurged into a brief weekend bender with Henry ...I splurged into a brief weekend bender with Henry Vaughan's <i>They Are All Gone into the World of Light!</i> this Friday and doubled the amount of times to two, that a text entered by Carol Rumens into conversation and critical debate at her graduina forum, invoked a sincere intellectual fizz of imbhas, the compositional excitement, grain and Imaginative grease dreaming smooth in geodic HQ .<br /><br />The one prior time the former full connection happened 2 years into Carols four years of choosing week after week poem after poem, from her so far 250 seperate individual and unique choices, with Donne's Sun Rising that was her choice the second week of October 2009. <br /><br />Up till then not one poem had struck true, until Friday the odds of it were 250/'1 and at a stroke Vaughan's poem halved them when I went from a singular, one-off experience of falling in literary love at first site and getting into the poem instantly.<br /><br />Now it has happened twice some sound attained on floors above opened onto prayerful skeletons animating voices and narrators heard in dreamy parentethis beyond the upper doors.Coirí Filíochtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-54961494608184203192012-01-15T19:02:11.989+00:002012-01-15T19:02:11.989+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Coirí Filíochtahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15137576329670368944noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-43381294588621161632012-01-15T18:26:56.998+00:002012-01-15T18:26:56.998+00:00Thank you very much Mr PD both for the good wishes...Thank you very much Mr PD both for the good wishes and the generous praise. The recipient was happy with the poem, which was accompanied by a beautiful close-up photograph of a very round lychee, taken by wife, C.George Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08889600788146987089noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4638619958588096610.post-1420186118573858772012-01-15T10:45:00.583+00:002012-01-15T10:45:00.583+00:00You're unparalleled, George. That's an ear...You're unparalleled, George. That's an earth-shattering poem, a powerful peal for this little person to enter the world with, one life-bringing scry now joining others. Masterful. I could say more, . . . I just leave it at: just sitting here in awe.<br /><br />Congratulations to your daughter and best wishes for your grandchild.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com