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Tree Talk
Tree talk is the party line of the intelligent listening forest
whether the smooth voiceless no breeze whisper rustling
inside green upper tiers of a fogbound blue spruce
or the deep aether growth song stirring
down in each tender quiet working sub-earth redwood shoot
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Hope
Mare's tail clouds cotton white
against a summer yacht blue
sky--the extending of light into
the renewing of the evening
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After Wang Wei
Chilling down by the water
stopped to watch clouds drift
clouds drift clouds drift
bumped into mr. green
talked laughed forgot
it was time to go
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15 comments:
BTP asks me to point out that 'party line' is intended as a telephonic reference, not a political one:)
oh, I first read it as a telephonic reference, but now you've pointed out the double entendre I quite like it that way. With the intelligence listening in.
Thanks BtP
Very obscure at first, but they grow on you after a couple of slow re-reads.
I like the forest sounds in the first one.
I get a very strong visual image of my own evening clouds here from the second one.
And I think I've met Mr Green before.
I like these, BTP. They grow on you, and then very precise pictures form in your mind. The forest is nice, I think maybe I like the third one best though.
sorry Offie, didn't mean to reproduce your comment word for word...
obviously they do grow on us, then:)
Zeph, munni, offside,
I need to know what have you done to File?
why did he left pseuds the pantheon of poets? Should we "file" a missing person report?
sorry,Beyond the shade of pale, I should have started
with a thank you-Hope, it's picture perfect-I am always moved by poets encounter with nature- Trees, water, clouds, perfect- but I love mushrooms-
Hope After Wang Wei, tree talk to File for a poem on mushrooms.Sorry to use so much room.
i don't think we need to explain the above or who did it-exposing publicly the bipolar side of a personality!
ouch.
I believe File is just very busy working and shovelling snow, and isn't writing seven poems a week like he used to - but he does still call by here from time to time, no?
BTP, I think you'll like this forest poem by File if you haven't already read it.
thanks Zeph,
forest and mushrooms , I can't beliveve I missed
it-shame on me.
Zeph, great minds, etc... and if mushrooms start growing on you, you know you've been living in the British climate for too long.
There is a way out.
really enjoyed all of these Beyonder, appreciate the deep, saturated economy of your words, Tree Talk is my fave of the three, 'the party line' echoed in the run-on imagery, very nice, are they meant to work as a trio I wonder?
Hey Guitou, thanks for the recall! Time in the west moves a lot faster than time in the tropics and I find myself blurred by the demands on me here
will post more of my ramblings but more sporadically! All the best Pere G!
thanks for posting a link to Legend Zeph, think it's tinkering as I see it now, sigh!
Hope is the one I just read and went "yeh". I see the clouds and always love them even though I struggle to read the weather.
File--many thanks for the comment, the more valued for the acuity of the source. As to these three small pieces appearing as a trio, our excellent moderator Zeph had a strong hand in that, so I guess it could be called editorially-induced serendipity.
Dog, I hope that's not contagious.
...personally I hope it IS contagious! Zeph's strong hands (in those famous velvet gloves) benefit us all here, these poems seem somehow even more intriguing for their proximity
it's great to have another voice here B, looking forward to more...
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