Queen enough for you

results of jubilee poem came in  did not win of course with "England I love this Republic"  the winners were  two elderly women and a school girl really simple  rhythm  no wonder pam ayres  loved them
mixed emotions over the jubilee was it just a TV event  "her majesty god bless her" strange having to say prayers in church for the heirs of Henry VII
finally put my jubilee poem together  and on to the Olympics

Queen enough for you

Not quite an era , an epoch

All one in decades

Age ridden monument

Of kings and a line of kings

God gave them  their stone

Castle fast tombs

Where they  are grinning like lords

Red white and blue

White rose

White cockade

Not part of me

Past and emotionalated

Rigid biped moving at diagonals

Vertical severe architecture

Elizabethan virgin, Victorian virgin

She walks among us

The restless beef  a shout crowd and flags

Can this be a Republic

But no I fall at the first

Cry to near century

Not part of me

All of me 

cannot get a diamond jubilee mug and smash the monarchy mug as a gift set

a week to go and my jubilee poem still on target   of course it starts off totally republican  and inspired by revolution and ends with  me as  loyal subject caught up in the crowd  or "restless beef" as i refer to them

"of kings and a line of kings

  God gave them their stone 

 castle  fast tombs where they rest grinning like lords

red white and blue  

white rose 

white cockade "

white rose and white cockade referring to the Yorkist and Stuart claimants

read Devil as Muse: Blake, Byron & the Adversary (Making of the Christian Imagination) by  Fred parker  this writes of the old chestnut  poet as the devils party  milton's friend etc  an introduction to blakes ironic fantasies  byron with tall dark handsome demons and mann trying his best to be goethe 


Survival  of the beautiful  science and evolution by david Rothernberg 
how beautiful is nature   from the bnower birsds obession with  blue , aptterns of wings nad feathers  to  cave  art and the template for drawing  the perfect mammoth

Out of OZ  by Gregory macguire  thisi s book 4 of the wicked series  and the first I read 

a modernisation of baum   with  ageing characters from the Oz books and the imperial politics on the capital hill in EC  and the politics of the free state of Munchkinland  . an multispecies nation caught up   in  sebastianism for a lost pretender and Dorothy brought to trial for double witch murder  noted by the presence of folded corners and bookmarks  that i had been the first reader to get past page 200 

the fairy bible   everything you want to know about fairy folk and fairy lore  from spirits of the elementals   to flower fairies  and a belief  in nature creatures  rather simple illustrations   but  full of content and  melody 

wrote poems about time slips  and  the modern theories of heaven and hell   this week