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#UKIsolatepoem 73
This is a book-length poem Whale Nation by Heathcote Williams. The film is well worth watching: beauty, wonder, horror, unforgettable
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This is a book-length poem Whale Nation by Heathcote Williams. The film is well worth watching: beauty, wonder, horror, unforgettable
via @YouTube
Extract from Whale Nation by Heathcote Williams
From space, the planet is blue.
From space, the planet is the territory
Not of humans, but of the whale.
Blue seas cover seven-tenths of the of the earth’s surface,
And are the domain of the largest brain ever created,
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From space, the planet is blue.
From space, the planet is the territory
Not of humans, but of the whale.
Blue seas cover seven-tenths of the of the earth’s surface,
And are the domain of the largest brain ever created,
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With a fifty-million-year-old smile.
Ancient, unknown mammals left the land
In search of food or sanctuary,
And walked into the water.
Their arms and hands changed into water-wings;
Their tails turned into boomerang-shaped tail-flukes,
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Ancient, unknown mammals left the land
In search of food or sanctuary,
And walked into the water.
Their arms and hands changed into water-wings;
Their tails turned into boomerang-shaped tail-flukes,
3/?
#UKIsolatepoem 56
The article below by Arundhati Roy is not a poem but I include it in this series of poems I am tweeting daily during the lockdown, because it is the best piece of prose I have read on the pandemic.
It covers India, also the US, also global issues
Do read...
The article below by Arundhati Roy is not a poem but I include it in this series of poems I am tweeting daily during the lockdown, because it is the best piece of prose I have read on the pandemic.
It covers India, also the US, also global issues
Do read...
#UKIsolatepoem 57
English Girl Eats Her First Mango by John Agard
If I did tell she
hold this gold
of sundizzy
tonguelicking juicy
mouthwater flow
ripe with love
from the tropics
she woulda tell me
trust you to be
melodramatic
so I just say
taste this mango
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English Girl Eats Her First Mango by John Agard
If I did tell she
hold this gold
of sundizzy
tonguelicking juicy
mouthwater flow
ripe with love
from the tropics
she woulda tell me
trust you to be
melodramatic
so I just say
taste this mango
1/?
and I watch she hold
the smooth cheeks
of the mango
blushing yellow
and a glow
rush to she own cheeks
and she ask me
what do I know
just bite into it?
and I was tempted
to tell she
why not be a devil
and eat of the skin
of the original sin
2/?
the smooth cheeks
of the mango
blushing yellow
and a glow
rush to she own cheeks
and she ask me
what do I know
just bite into it?
and I was tempted
to tell she
why not be a devil
and eat of the skin
of the original sin
2/?
The Cycle of Life
Now we are stilled what has become of the rhythm of our lives?
Once dictated by the time on the clock,
A meeting, celebrity programme,
The catching of a train.
What now marks the passing of our week?
Thursday clapping, the weekly shop,
2/?
Now we are stilled what has become of the rhythm of our lives?
Once dictated by the time on the clock,
A meeting, celebrity programme,
The catching of a train.
What now marks the passing of our week?
Thursday clapping, the weekly shop,
2/?
Friday candles, Wednesday quiche, another Sunday roast.
How do we notice the day going by?
A daily walk
The 5 o clock briefing
Or the gently shifting arc of the sun...
Now we are stilled what are we learning of the cycle of life?
The loss of our loved one,
3/?
How do we notice the day going by?
A daily walk
The 5 o clock briefing
Or the gently shifting arc of the sun...
Now we are stilled what are we learning of the cycle of life?
The loss of our loved one,
3/?
#UKIsolatepoem 29
ZOOM! by Simon Armitage
It begins as a house, an end terrace
in this case
but it will not stop there. Soon it is
an avenue
which cambers arrogantly past the Mechanics' Institute,
turns left
at the main road without even looking
1/?
ZOOM! by Simon Armitage
It begins as a house, an end terrace
in this case
but it will not stop there. Soon it is
an avenue
which cambers arrogantly past the Mechanics' Institute,
turns left
at the main road without even looking
1/?
and quickly it is
a town with all four major clearing banks,
a daily paper
and a football team pushing for promotion.
On it goes, oblivious of the Planning Acts,
the green belts,
and before we know it it is out of our hands:
city, nation,
2/?
a town with all four major clearing banks,
a daily paper
and a football team pushing for promotion.
On it goes, oblivious of the Planning Acts,
the green belts,
and before we know it it is out of our hands:
city, nation,
2/?
hemisphere, universe, hammering out in all directions
until suddenly,
mercifully, it is drawn aside through the eye
of a black hole
and bulleted into a neighbouring galaxy, emerging
smaller and smoother
than a billiard ball but weighing more than Saturn.
3/?
until suddenly,
mercifully, it is drawn aside through the eye
of a black hole
and bulleted into a neighbouring galaxy, emerging
smaller and smoother
than a billiard ball but weighing more than Saturn.
3/?
