"The darker side" [classico-boomerang]
The hour grows late I sit before the screen
I kill the lights the words appear in lines
the poem wants a cadence slow serene
the ear requires a music plain refined
the simpler grows the sentence that I write
the clearer proves the meaning that I've seen
how lovely rests the darker side of night!
the hour grows late I sit before the screen
[For Alankrita Pandey -- written with the aim of drawing a bit closer in form & spirit to such a poem's classical Chinese antecedents. I expound on this form at some length here.]
I kill the lights the words appear in lines
the poem wants a cadence slow serene
the ear requires a music plain refined
the simpler grows the sentence that I write
the clearer proves the meaning that I've seen
how lovely rests the darker side of night!
the hour grows late I sit before the screen
[For Alankrita Pandey -- written with the aim of drawing a bit closer in form & spirit to such a poem's classical Chinese antecedents. I expound on this form at some length here.]
posted by david raphael israel at 6:51 AM
3 Comments:
very cool. I like the lime green.
this is simple and beautiful..just the way i like it..
no bombasticity here..
just simple linearity of words..
will surely be back :)
Thanks VM & Pincush!
This most-spare mode of writing is one perhaps I should return to more. As with music, where a few notes sounded from depths can convey more than running around like chicken w/ proverbial head chopped off, so too . . .
so: w/ appreciations appreciated,
d.i.
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