think this is my first failure during a time slip

wrote and uploaded on various sites this  time slip poem  ok as it is  a walk in woodland  and a sudden time slip between prehistoric woodland dwellers and  the present  dirty park  http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/time-slip-2/   not had that many readers or comments as usual
feel it is a failure  of language and image
 best lines i think is  are

Damp plastic hung skinny from ash tree
Lightning forked on something like an oak
Stump raised in flight and fungus lime


rather than the   one million years BC captain caveman  vision  of
same place
different time
or is it the other ?

brute skin fury hungry in a good carnage
bone arrow bowmen
eyes open to their gods

feather and bird skin
long ivory crushed from freshly killed beast a thousand hours ago


diificult to  be emotive  over  a time slip
 never had that experience not even  a deja  vu ! and despite being in hospital intensive care and very ill years ago never had the light at the end of the tunnel  or out of body experience   most timeslips are seeing a wonderful cottage or great  Georgian   house  which when seen again  is a ruin of centuries


putting finishing touches to my jubilee poem  for 4th and 5th June the sun has now given over to rain for the day

all cities turn to dust

british comics a cultual history by james chapman this claims to be a first of its kind but is yet another adult orientated nostalgia book dealing with comics from the victorian to the present yet again sections on dan dare pilot of the future and 2000AD and viz less on the funnies beano and danny just passed over and long section on little read brief issues of alternative comics and graphic novels one for the collector

 It Just Slipped Out: A Bulging Encyclopaedia of Double Entendres by Russell Ash laugh out hsitory of this englaih language comedy institution what is a doulbe entendre well a girl wals in a bar and asks for a double entendre so the bar man gives her one side splitting a to z od the perisl of asking aold hard of hearing man if he had "seen any picknickers about " or the reply to get if you ask a cockney in a rowing boat with two woman passengers if you ask to "borrow one of his oars" "taking down particulars" and "inspecting testimonials" a laugh out loud book


 when a bilion chinese jump how china will save mankind or destroy it by jonathan watts the asian enviromental correspondent for the Guardian tours china and finds it smoggy, eco extinct and building great cities on refuse and resources


 dubai the story of the worlds fastest city by jim kane yet another journalists book this time on the mirror city building skyscrapers in the sand powered by its migrant workers who live in a shanty called the city of gold dubai like binhai and beihan a new 21stC city from nowhere but like all cities in the world abandoned by the end of this 21st century city as wealth of the elite and model town dream do we need them?


 nearly did not make it to monday as narrowly missed by a speeding car going through a red light when i was crossing the road


 writing poetry and emailed simon armitage expect as much a reply from him as got from brian cox all i asked SA was was had he ever considered doing another medieval yorkshire accent poem this time translating the kalevala

not writing much poetry with bells on

well it is near end of 2011 a year that in the future will be a year a date from like 1914 or 1901
started off well writing a lot of poems under the title basic universe but since i published my ebook online at amazon kindle christopher lantern his midnight name ( to date sales zero) and on lulu http://www.lulu.com/product/ebook/christopher-lantern--his-midnight-name/18690777 - likewse sales zero
i have become commercial and thus seen a drop in inspiration where once i could write a fantasy trilogy in an afternoon on a a A4 sheet (admit it it is easy to do) or create whole mythologies and pantheons

now i have little time due to work committments for which i have won yet another award as adult education teacher
find myself down to earth and not a heavenly wanderer anymore
the picture above i used to find very inspiring it is the view of the sun from alpha centauri the sun is the bright star at the end of the big W of cassiopeia -almost the heart of the sky
no longer look at the stars to speak nor make thir patterns
do not know what will happen in 2012 only know it will not be the end of the world -that will be in 2159