Green The Pool Was [lyric amusement]
Green tho pool was
in those days
& I were but a lad
flowed the water
wonderous ways
our afternoons grew glad
by the rills we'd wander idly
diving in the stream
none explained : yet thought we mildly
life's a kelly dream
who'd suppose nostalgia's net
would capture sun in shade?
half-remember half-forget
in memories I wade
gone are hills & done are rills
distant now those times
none to share the song that fills
my aching heart with rhymes
worlds appear & disappear
who can plumb the secret?
kelly glade & lucent mere
charmingly discomfit
waterfalls & city-sprawls
humankind & nature
waking dreams of daffodils
evenings passed at leisure
long appeared the microscopic
reach of our then-future
now we grow indeed myopic
baffled by time's measure
when we settle into stillness
& the tale's done
kelly streams again befill us
gleaming in what sun?
Green the pool was -- green in seeming
idle though my gaze
I the fool was -- foolish dreaming
through those liquid days
A chap who styles himself Indeterminacy (aka Doktor Mabuse) has (his blog notes) established a daily practice of posting a photograph -- along with a short fiction he devises based on the picture. Lately he invited others' tales responsive to this acquatic image. My idle-amusement verses above are a consequence.
It's refreshing to see Mabuse's prose fiction imagination-exploration, conceptually drawing (somewhat unexpectably) from certain antecedents in John Cage's work. My verses (an alternative medium for "fiction") hat-tip the good doktor's efforts.
posted by david raphael israel at 7:00 PM
5 Comments:
Thanks not only for your contribution of the poem (the first poem ever at Indeterminacy!) but also for writing this up here. I found your blog after finding the cageblog, and looking up who linked to it. I've stumbled my way into a wonderful circle of blogs.
The story has a new link now, after I've posted my meager take.
Hey Indie -- good you pointed to new location; I've adjusted the link (from the photo) accordingly. Fact is, I likewise found your site by checking who was linking to mine -- thus the find-&-seek is somewhat circular here in blogdom.
Meanwhile, coincidentally, some hour(s) ago, a literary forum I habit has commenced (as exercise) an "ecphrasis" (poem based on picture) duo -- whence my two such now seen above on this blog. So yours kicked off this process (in present phase) for me -- thanks!
I'd vaguely guessed you'd found my blog via The Accidental Elephant or perhaps River's blog -- Cage blog link is an interesting radar-signal.
cheers, d.i.
It was the other way around! I found River's blog in your links, and at River's I ran into Enemey of the Republic. It's indeed a small blog world.
Glad that you all have started a poetry/photo project. I'm going to check it out.
I'm sorry. I was so unsatisfied with my first story that I threw it out. That made the link change still again:
indeterminacy.blogspot.com/2005/12/one-night-while-enjoying-warmth-of.html
no prob -- appreciate the heads-up. (One can expect a few changes from Indeterminacy, presumably.) As you've turned your tale, it seems the guys are no match in resourcefulness to those mermaids. Out of their league.
I've retolled link(s), thanks.
cheers, d.i.
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