Friday, 27 March 2015

Aura Rhanes Space blonde reticulated by shapes of Gray


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
you may still see in second hand shops  encyclopaedias of unsolved mysteries  with chapters  called "what killed the  dinosaurs?" the only survivor of the Marie Celeste speaks out" "Anastasia the lost grand duchess"  and a little section on UFOs  illustrated with blurred  saucers  overshooting must be faked bolted discs and  "can you believe  it" references to /Arnold and /Adamki

 

When you could find cheap paperbacks with titles like flying saucers are hostile,"  "the UFO phenomenon"   and "in search of the extraterrestrials "   written in the 1970s  which I read in the 1990s  with  accounts of daylight  contacts with  humans  such a the very similar Socorro, Newark valley and Valensole  alien visitors  all modelled around the landing diorama of a shiny round object  in a field  and two crew members   or what  seemed to me  at the time  the story of the luckiest Brazilian on earth  and his  extra sexual encounter with the girl  from  Beta Hydri- since however    claimed to be an early CIA sponsored  black ops L.S.D trip  involving a herd of goats

an encounter like many of that era   with  blonde space pilots  wearing little more than goggles and flying helmet named  Aura Rhanes or Semjeja   who choose one ordinary Joe  to be  instructed  in a mission   , picked him up time and time again   then cooled off  "and when I saw Aura Rhanes in a street later she ignored me!!"

 

 These UFO books were much more fun  to read than the present day  Gray literature  based as it is of government cover-ups of the  Zeta Reticuli  Grays "Bugsie, Hoppity and Blik" probing paedo probing  over generations  in exchange  for developing  stealth  aircraft

and  where now  most repetition  of  the saucers is either the  cover-up  of the Roswell balloon hoax or the  1980  Rendelsham forest  lighthouse sighting  which it should be noticed took place at Christmas time  and  the effort the USAF  made to cover up this  proved  by   a newly  declassified Dec  31st 1980 report  "11.59pm    persistent bright lights in the sky   for period of 20 minutes over surrounding area

 

and instead of multiple contactee books  we had  Nick Pope in the UK   who had made a career on  what  may only  be    as  is  alleged YTS  work experience   at the ministry of defence  unidentified  aerial phenomena  desk for a few months in the 1990s  and who passed himself as "keeper of secrets " which did not really make up for the repetive   lack of evidence in any of his books and interviews

 

alas Nick Pope is no longer even "the  keeper of secrets"  as the   UK ministry of defence UAP /UFO files have now been declassified   in the National archives and online and  even appear as part of a teatime TV programme   about 1000 years of state secrets presented by a former Secretary of State for Defence !

where you look for "Mr Janus  alien in the  British establishment " the files  are  mainly  red balloon chasing, and passing traffic of bored letters  to school children  who had seen Venus  and  drew  neatly labelled pictures of colourful spaceships  in support of this

 cover-ups that were cover-ups in the Thatcher years  soon date  like  the idea that  the USA is run by  Gray probers who  created stealth technology  in 1949  but who had to manage  a cover-up to convince a   1950 contactee that they had driven by a   grounded flying saucer parked by the road side  and  "remember being  asked  to stop  by the alien crew to  help them fix it "

this is  only one  way to  a F117

 

and not half the fun of  contacting "humans just like us but much  hotter " in a chrome cruiser from Clarion and being  informed during the   our superior technology tour  for   weak earthlings  that they came from  "what you know as the planet Mars, the other side of  Mercury" or  that stand by of celestial navigation  "an invisible galaxy near Neptune "

 

 

What If -Sir John Wayne


My poem set in a alternative history where John Wayne was born British  and the  now unfashionable star of  Raj  and Zulu set  colonial pictures

John Wayne  as  film buffs will know did make a Movie  with Oliver Hardy as his  co star



What If -Sir John Wayne

 

 

 

Sir John Wayne  star of many a colonial boy movie

stands with awe and more awe the words of  sir Henry Newbolt  to a close hall of Eton harrowed primes

not just pride in your country

it's Montagu Love

 

red shipped square  to gatling

  square bullets  for infidels

 

big john sir john bible john 

the iconic Wayne

topee

trusting in western lee-enfield

bearers behind

Greek dancing tents

camp coffee label

 

big john short fare to America

rendering America

 one half of the comedy duo Hardy and Wayne

 

associated British Gainsborough pictures

flew wooden hurricanes and never spats

white hunter

auk hunter

biopics of the man who founded imperial tobacco and  the man who created Empire Day

 

played every hero of federated Nyasaland

and in 1960  wi/th money from his shorts paid for produced  starred in and directed  the epic  "Relief of  Lucknow"

remember Lucknow?

 

iconic Wayne

pleased to be mistaken for a retired Simla civil servant

and advertises  brown sauce

 

 


Wednesday, 18 March 2015

A World of Tyrants remembered 2070-1970


 
 
 
As I mentioned in previous blogs  the 2070 s  will see the end of the Nation state    a turning away from city living   to a new femto technology created  countryside  and the first attempts to build  a  universal world state  based around a scattered  world population of less than 90 million

 

the 1970s by contrast  were my earliest memories  and  a rather distant awareness of  everywhere tyrants and dictators who did not trouble me  at the age of 4

 

Tyrants in those days were judged as rulers of regimes not favourable to  western visitors  or TV reception  this  of course in a world divided between American and soviet one way weapons systems to be  that  of  the anonymous   red  mass of   communist bloc Warsaw pact red communist menace    with walls  and parallels    so much that  at the  time i believed the great wall of china to be the same era  and purpose  as the Berlin wall  but covering the whole Chinese border-  it doesn't- just the way the map was coloured in

 

the anonymous  big  red mass dictators was  made of  the ex  kingdoms  ending in "ia" were called soviet satellites  which  made them sound like sputnik 2, pupniks   and the dictators  turned out to be called  anonymous  generic Erick Todnov chairman and general secretary of the  central committee for state planning 

 it has  been  calculated  i believe  today that  more death threats are uttered  each  day on Twitter  than in the entire  puptnik era   of dictatorship

 

what I noticed about the red mass was the  number of   boiler plate victory monuments often erected in countries i knew were on the losing side in the second world war and that you could built for example a kalingrad  palace of the soviets in a quarter  of the building blocks it took to make a model of konigsberg castle

but to me the most   terrifying thing of a tyrant were the children of my own age   white shirted young pioneers with little red scarves   loving the outdoor exercise , singing marching songs in praise of generic Erick Todnov and behaving  just like the worst sneaks and tell the teachers

only North Korea has their little sneaks left and ironically they will be the vanguard of  the future unification movement

as North Korea is not a dictatorship but a group identity

 

 

There were also   emperors in this four year olds world not the "kaisers and tsars" of his grandmothers youth  but  more along the lines of "I am emperor and I want dumplings " autocrats

both had near identical walking  toy lions  waving  one paw  as  heraldic arms

such as  the  crown coiffured shah of Persia  celebrating 2500 years of Iranian monarchy   with  a costume parade ,a square  headed dynast  who was as I later discovered  was the  grandson of the second standby driver on a goat manure delivery cart

 or the emperor of Ethiopia   I had  only just learnt (from flags and emblems of the world) about  the lion of Judah  dynasty tracing its origins back to king  Solomon  emperor  too small  for his throne   when said lion was deposed

the  first event happening  in Africa I can remember

 

with the end of  world dictatorship re red  mass or  US supported  south American juntas only North Korea  we can safely in the west call a tyranny  and  draw attention  to its failure to admit western visitors or use the internet  after all this time

founded in the aftermath of the second world war    and based as with all dictatorships   on  the publics belief in the  authority of the leaders personality   for many years classed as part of the red mass sort of an eastern hoxha's Albania in isolation   boredom will be its revolution

 

in history tyrants rarely meet their ends from a n Harmodius or Princep  standing at the street corner

 and as   autocrats they are  more likely to meet their deaths in similar circumstances as   well protected  tyrants such as   Darius III  or the Roman emperor  Macrinus in the ancient world   and  further examples all the way to Ceausescu

from  four hour standing ovation and golden throne   to escaping  in the back of a  broken down bottari truck and  finally being  beaten to death  with a tyre iron by their own  bodyguards

 

  for every autocrat with  the cognomen "cruel" or "terrible"    there are others known by the nickname "flute player" or "bell ringer"

more sauce bottle than Sauron

fifty true stories stranger than fiction






fifty true  stories stranger than fiction is one of the anthologies published by Odhams press in the 1930s

 fifty memoirs from hard as nails Cape Horner's,  gold rush prospectors , foreign legionnaires, soldiers of fortune .bandits, gun runners,  early motorists gangstes and  white hunters  aware as one  author comments "that they have lived  into a softer age"

 

belonging to the genre of ripping yarns  no greater amount of tobacco has ever before been  chewed in  one volume

here is "life as I lived it two fisted " with authors names such as Dare du Bois Philips, ex legionnaire 1384,  or Pousse Cailloux

 

my favourites are:

Thrills On A Windjammer

Lynch Law In The West

Mysteries  In The South Seas

The Man Who Snatched A Throne

Ambush

Dead Men Tell No Tales

Log Of A Hell Ship

The Death Valley  -The Gates Of Hell

 

 illustrated is  the scene from  mysteries in the south sea's   by  captain Ragnar Nyberg  " Captain Nyberg    encounters   the Austrian born " king of the cannibal islands" and his dead companion   locked in  cages during a  period of tabu"

 

 The stories may lack  what we call an  awareness of   in present norms equality and diversity they  and assume contemporary attitudes to race and animal rights

 As a British publication it is course full of Empire memoirs   tales of wild Canada, the South Seas  Africa and the far  East

 Natives from Banayoro to Cork are part of the empire "it was nine years since   the death  of queen Victoria  yet they still talked of the great white queen   and  still do for all i know today" and  happy  under the flag  unless  they drank whiskey or listened to a  German

 but  more of the content is  set   in  the    frontier of California, or  Alaska  where a early motor  car(Haynes marque) can be held up by bandits outside Santa Barbara  " i was in the act of letting out the clutch  when we heard a series of shots"  or  in "dead men tell no tales " one  Klondike prospector recollected  in the company of a native American and canoe he and  his buddy  had commandeered to get to Dawson that on journeys end  fumbling in his jacket  his  buddy Sacramento   "  "empties all six chambers into the Indian's body,  the man was staring at him with  his usual contemptuous  expression when he fired "

 

 

 however each story  often blatantly  violent   is it is should be seen  as historical documents   with   now out of print first hand accounts of earthquakes ,  sailing ships ,attacks on pirates , treasure hunts    lion taming acts   and big game /man hunting  -although modern readers may feel disgusted by the   contemporary belief that" a Rhinoceros is a veritable El  Dorado " or that one safari client a Philadelphia lawyer  can "acquire a very decent bag including besides  his lion, rhinos  buffalo eland , leopard  kooodoo  and other  heads  and skins all of them very good stuff"

 

The Nibelungenlingenlungenlied Part II


part 2  siegfried has  washed away brundhilde and is compared unfavourabtly to her lovers
 
 
very dark very darkness and joined to the darkness

a faint a follow

what is this who is coming?

herself-

 

 

 

 threw his cap

his cockerel cap of coins

tenfold of stamped aureoles Romanus the last

ruins at the crack

tombs of home Egypt

empty Alexander

 

a constant Christian

started her own fire

 

 like him

Siegfried too was born in a star

under a stable

 

a hero glisters  helmets mounted

wings, horns , boar

ringer come to court

berserker

and the horse you rode in on!

 

like other lovers

courters

 in the words  of Jack Thick

who strode cut giants head eyeless and other missings  dangled at the strap

boasted of  how  "he slept with fifty painted  Picties and  created Scotland "

 

central to poetic themes is that of the failed lover

others

 

enchanted axman huntsman who wished cut her out of fish in a rare dress

passes a worm

part beautiful princess wearing sea monkey crown

who prophesied in  melancholy Piscean that "he would go away  and marry a  more beautiful woman"

gone away

 

 

knight bolder  jumped the smoke  mistaking a  grail happening  castle

rounded all comers in  maiden ties

bare squirrel knuckles

champion

 knocked  down the holy table

  downed at Arthur's  punch bowl kingdom

rounded all comers

beat the  wife

 

me ,my wife, me, my wife, my wife   me  my wife

rolling   carta  lex judex codex  -a husband may have two wives , a wife two husbands  

 

and you ?

 

 

I know everything of the world

have I not walked the whole flat!

for good Germanic reasons

 

stole meal from a mythical beast

stole meat from a mythical beast

killed an Apollo coloured dragon in blue evil

 

when I first  met your mother

Sillilindesigersmutter

and her brother

Siegmond

all father

 

an orphan raised by reduced  people

Smiths and Browns

 

 

remember the  fire

spring wedding

 

Woden is Odin,  Odin is Woden

grandfather frost,

 rag picker

rag wind

sixty foot man to fifty foot woman

consumed a trencher of slaves and chattels

first  of the hero's dooms told in higher birder

 

God speaks

milk  lapper  milk yappet

killed a dwarf in dragon form- little chow chow

cockerel cap   invisible helmet

bored with your hoarding

rubbing rings  peaches  dun apples

 

Rhine gold belongs to Rhine maidens in Rhine water

heads tails

mooning waves

so poor they eat rats  ex cathedra cellar chamber

rats like sock and stockings

a poor song for a good girl

give  them their  gold

 

overturn heads and  tails

 three coins in a fountain  three rhenish plops

with curses

 

 

the wedding guests

Gunnar and Gudrun

Gundrid named  after Grimhild

Hagen ,Hogni  the same brothers

snake red meat swilling in drac boss

 

 

twelve thirteen  bosom cold warriors

random valkyries

substituted for female nudes

battle on the right side

long beard sword dealer

Sven beard sword dealer

 

beckoning with little finger

 pick up the bodies

bring up the bodies

give the dead line

 in medium rich hall

ever eating pig

 

hands under the table

rose game  fingers

telling a north  fortune

"where has Brunhilde been all your life"

she  will kill you

 

Gudrun

she will kill you

willed her

bad stone to build  Englehilderhammer abbey annexe

guilt  in m masses

 

Gunnar is a king

does not kill

whispers "counsellors"

whispers  "turbulent priest"

 

Hagen 

retainer 

chain

your new best bestest  friend  at school

Hagen kills you

settles a  dispute between  geese

Hagen's gold

rolling home

 

draw a yard linen boat

dragon slayer  hole

figurehead

dog of  a Viking

invisible helmet

 

three gods not one

firer, thunderer, other

sunrise unfaithful

yellowdock sweet

 

 wedding guests

 

Ursula and her eleven thousand  virgins

the  beat light cavalry in the world

Ursula bows man strong like a  weavers flail

 

failing virginal emotion

unable to biblically read scriptive and acts

"Helen sails  with her husband duty to siege careless golden Troy "

whores ,oars, horse

 

hel halla arrows

 a fourth shoot breaks the ship and wings

 

out to sea

 

lily pond

 

Brunhilde is not there

downs herself erotically in dyers glen

 

when will it happen

 will it happen 

will it

 

Siegfried  lying on his back

the next sorrow

a wise man

a blind man

 

grown over in certain green

the waldest monument

cut twice in steiner rock

eins Norser and post war English

"died

returned  to claim his wife

died again"

pedants  had eliminated "wife"  and had written "widow"

 

 The Nibelungenlingenlungenlied Part II

Mark Littler 2015

 

The Nibelungenlingenlungenlied part I


this is my latest poem first dreamt up during my latter period of recovery in hospital

it is my version of the Siegfried the dragon slayer tale   and stylistically follows that of my earlier  "elen of the hosts"  and "robbinhood"

 

Originating in eddaic  scalds  and based on the  bad families  of the Sigurdy Volsunga saga

the  hero story was  retold to less effect  for medieval audiences  in   the Frankish  set and frankish directed  Das Niebelungenlied   more a "Nibelungen Not" where the  curse and the  volsunger magic are mere scenery   and as a tale  D.N  had little appeal   until caught up in   ill-conceived  attempt to create a Homer rivalling "great story of the North" with  over emphasis on the word "race"  

which  inspired    the  Arier  pitch  of    the musical Dassie versions   before the whole dragon slayer  treasure pile    epic  became hobbitual  in Tolkien's ruining of English myth

 

my new version   the Nibelungenlingenlungenlied will be published in the third collected volumes of my poetry

 

in the first part Siegfried  is a   aimless hero dragging his treasure behind him  and then  fantasising  by the fire encircled brunhilde  unable to summon the courage to ride into the flames

in the second part   having washed away Brunhilde  Siegfried is unfavourably compared to her previous suitors   and the wedding day  is   focused on prophecies of doom

 

 



 

Nibelungenlingenlungenlied

 

 

 

 

Woden trees being with wish rags

riders of the sky wild hunt

long fingers  one of us one of us

neither night 

mare before the Hecate

 

sunset

Siegfried split between two dwarves

wyrd weird

blonde hair and rings the very Teuton

bird eater dragon takes the jaw

Siegfried  at the dragons mouth

gold buries gold

 

sunrise

 dawn adulterous  on earth and sky

praying at a  shrine of pietas fear

Joseph and his child

baby wolf

 

Siegfried wears a red cap  beaker, crow , fat duck

hero

 with dragons teeth  sow retainers  invincibles

what teeth ?

he played knucklebones

played toss

threw bait to slowest fish

-army of one

 

 

A sword pointer than any sword

a horse racer than any horse

armour of chain no weapon can take  but with one weak link over the heart

chain pull

invisible helmet

invisible man

 

most beautiful women in the world

fair  hair like the raven before it took to bad ways

red lips white skin

like pack trampled ground

 

 

most beautiful woman in the world

as illiadated  by a middle aged crone in blackest syren

of classical goddesses flinging some Greek of no importance

off white girls  in  show men statuesque

pop the apple  prize   awarded rubbed smooth

"to the farthest"

 

given to the jolly ho traveller  out of the north pole

sleigh cresset with  wants and goods

boreal cheeks ,apple, nog, brandy

"up Prancer morning star"

goddess  fit for brandy

 

 

 

 

A fire seafaring silk

frester, flaming Helena and Elmo

 

fifty foot tall woman surrounded by a metric of fire

watching her through reeds

chase hair

brushing combing

 

lying flowers at the gather

last of her knife throwing act

bosom belly and words

 and words

broom  and words

invisible man

 

dreams  without flight

woman

broad serving at the boat burial of sexrex Saxon

lucky rex

three ages

of woman

bride, bracks, scold

 

Sieg  hero lied

rescued fair maiden  lied

 

 

looked at his horse  a hay dipper

looked at his sword a hay dipper

invisible man

fear

fire

 

 

 

 

solution worked out on his toes  And Or

bearing  quadral triangulium flow in  stone to stone rivers

 

he bathed

while rubbing himself  to sparks

understand cuck call feather speech 

something of animals

words of bliss as birds do in their aerials

jays balanced on  saint buckthorn  branches chaffer  profics of cunnings, traitors, dooms 

hugging and mugging crows

 

what hear

dirty minded birds -shags, albatossers

creeper

fur prey and compliment

a  fitting weasel  cries "where is my silver"

 

 

water fire

chapel and crib

 

terror in the lake

terrible in the lake

green knight

marsh gas

pot gas

 snake row

filling with water

bones for my supper

bones for her supper

 

carry water sorcered buckets

words  he knew no words                     

 

gravestone backed landowner  serfs  and wood wode grunting lithics 

 bent to rule a straight  Martian dying canali

paid in brass love pennies

 pennies that turned into  fractionals

oak leaves beyond the forest

 

 

bury summer

 marry summer

bury winter

marry winter

 

brushing combing

 

 

the Nibelungenlingenlungenlied  part I

Mark Littler 2015