Showing posts with label time slip. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time slip. Show all posts

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 

Thursday, 31 May 2012

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