Friday, 20 July 2012

A sleeping engine my time travel by dream



This is one of my latest poems   oddly like  xanadu revealed in a  dream
 I was  actually  in the medieval period between ruins  and  medieval reality  witnessing  some sort of    forgotten crime of passion     as it happened  
 England has lot of ghost couples unhappy in love haunting and haunting
 but most you realise are  from stories of fiction    or tourist  traps  - no real way to trace the origins of this  


I live out  the past
A sleeping engine  in a shocked  blank room

Older than saxons
Older than jutes
Older than older !
The land gives back

Dreary English ghosts
Demonic and  inertly orthodox

Wake a  dread height
Travelling aquatint gives us light
Spilling utter twisted dust
 Lace, frost and the same ringing weather from here to there

May day festival  and hobby hob foul 
chalk horse  chases down grass  giant
this is a complex relationship  of  love and  place

two  of the other strangers dance
he rejected !
she repelled !
many lives are here
safety in numbers 
car drawn farm cart coarse with  hanged man 
maid in her grave

a romance of  the medieval from beginning to end
tear it up   bring candle to water 

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