Christine at Abbey of the Arts is back from her travels and yesterday launched her latest invitation to poetry.
This time she uses the image of music in the layout reproduced here, and the poem A Brief for the Defence, by Jack Gilbert. Gilbert’s poem, new to me, talks of the power of joy in terrible situations.
For some reason, images and thoughts of the sea have been much in my mind lately, and I drew from this for my own poem:
Spirals of sound,
pattern of notes
like a seashellheld to your ear
for the melodious
rush of tides.If the ocean
devours the land
it will drown usin music.
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Tess, I love your poem, the reminder of music found in a shell, the rhythm of tides as it own kind of music and that incredibly hopeful closing image. blessings to you! Christine
It’s gorgeous! I love the simplicity, the flow and the ebb of it. I felt like it was the ocean speaking to me. It looks like the creative spirit and energy found you, how wonderful.
This is so beautiful. I was lost in sound, image and memory. This is poem one should say out load. “spirals of sound….rush of tides…devours the land.” Simply lovely.
very beautiful, tess! i understand that longing for the sea!
Beautiful.
I was talking to a colleague today about living in Perth (which I love) but missing the sea. So I dug out an old slide of the harbour in the town where I grew up (if, indeed, I have grown up) and posted it as my Friday photo today.
Maybe we’re on the same wave-length! (Pun intended!!)
Thank you all so much for these comments. This poem was one of those that just came to me very quickly, and I think those tend to work out better than ones that need a lot of ‘tinkering’
ER: that is a truly terrible pun