Ophelia's Nun

FinsburyParkCarrots

At least it wasn't a miniature of Monet's waterlillies.

exhale

Originally posted by FinsburyParkCarrots
I dip down my big green fork
and curl up fatstraggling duckweed,
the multipigtailed mane of the mudcaked brook.
I pull it up now, my glutted fork:
I feel its weight on my wrists, my shoulders now,
And I fire the greeny sprawl off the prongs
with a neat, sharp thrust, high overhead,
seeing flashing liquid prisms
shower the heads of dropwort on the bank.
The thrappling slap of that ripping out of excess,
that choking dam, has the stream in ecstatic explosion:
Plumes of mushrooming water
billow, greybrowny in the ditch,
tumbling upstream, free
in a tapped gush, gleaming in sun,
and the watercourse's song's a happy folderol,
a flapdoodle ramble,
an undammed, reborn emotion,
a seaward sundancing pulse.

Bladderwort, honeyyellow,quivers in the glaze
of sunning June, my time for streammaking;
Voleeyes, shinyblack, dart happily, peeping
between belts of waterdock, and pinky fingers
part reeds in bold reconaissance
at the stream I cut for them:
I make
this babbling brooky pass for moorhens and young,
this highway pool for pike,
streakblistering past in a sunning riverflash:
I make text;
I make imagination.

...it´s so alive

FinsburyParkCarrots

Everyone made a thread for Ruby (rarghrargh-brownstar) over on AET, and she's really a lifeforce that energises this ole virtuality, and marries that text and imagination with grace and kindness, always. I put this poem up over there, but I'll log it over here too.
For dat nice Ruby.



Ruby blue,
Diaphanously sparkling,
Makes a heart go rarghrargh
Farther
than all a universe's
goodlovegleaming
universestippling
stars.
Ruby blue,
a sea of love in an earth of brown,
spin, spin, spin your light
tonight.

FinsburyParkCarrots

A thyeeeoody-doo scrreeedddeee deee!

A chreeperrrebbledeellle feereeepooo,
a reeeedeeedeee!!!!


A reeedpleeyeeareeeple,
a neeneeneeenneee a REEBEEEDEEEE!!!!

a-REEEB errr rooobeeeeraaaheeeebabeee...
wheeeble reeebeeeebayyyy
deeeeddddeeeeedeeeeee!!!!! Klkllwheeee!!!!

eeeeee, it's lovely to hear it!

FinsburyParkCarrots

dancing!
yeehah!
arriba!
ole!
gigglin'!
ideal!
realreal
lovin'!

anOmis

Originally posted by FinsburyParkCarrots
dancing!
yeehah!
arriba!
ole!
gigglin'!
ideal!
realreal
lovin'!

*spins around herself*

FinsburyParkCarrots

If the word 'bark' doesn't bark,
Then the word 'dog' doesn't bark,
And if 'dog''s just a word, like 'bark',
Then ergo: A dog doesn't bark.

corduroy_vedder

if i could get my head around this little teaser..which i am at a disadvantage due to the heat....i would try and contest the incontestable does a dog bark though? its more 'arrrghrooor' but i like what you're saying *winks*

FinsburyParkCarrots

Originally posted by corduroy_vedder
if i could get my head around this little teaser..which i am at a disadvantage due to the heat....i would try and contest the incontestable does a dog bark though? its more 'arrrghrooor' but i like what you're saying *winks*

Well, nephewmelad, it's all a bit Saussurean, really. According to this kind of theory, there's no inherent dogness in the word dog, and the word 'dog' only signifies the signified of that thing that barks or goes 'arrghroor' through its interrelationship with other words/textual units/signifiers in a system of signs, either constituitive of a closed sign system or structure, or in an infinitely expanding universe of signs in play. The relationship between dog and an extra-linguistic dogness is arbitrary ... post-structuralists might say impossible!

corduroy_vedder

erm yeh...*nods in agreement*

FinsburyParkCarrots

Originally posted by corduroy_vedder
erm yeh...*nods in agreement*

Ah, but with what, Young Grasshopper-nephewmelad? The words I used, or the truth they purported to convey?; for as Derrida reckoned, "Zerrrr eeees nozzeeng outzide erv zeee texxxxt" and, that being so, my words only related to each other as words, and meant nothing ... unless they connoted for you a kind of negative capability in their nonsensicality ...

:D:D

FinsburyParkCarrots

"Ask me any question"
Said the hippo to the snake,
As he sweated like a piston
Rolling in his muddy lake.
"Asssk you any quessstion?"
Hissed the snake up on the bank.
"Yes, ask me any question",
Said the hippo, "And be frank".

"Yesssss. Who won the Tour de Franccccce
In nineteen sssssixxxxxty-sssssixxxx"?",
The snake asked, darting like a lance
his tongue, in testy flicks.
"Lucien Aimar came first;
Janssen finished second....
... Eating grass sure builds your thirst",
the wise old hippo reckoned.

Yellow

dude... you have a small novel in yahoo...

so... yahoo...

and whatnot



lovely little thing for rarghraurgh (sp?)... busy as usual, I see?

FinsburyParkCarrots

Stourbridge Common ponies, owned by Fen
travellers, chew vaguely at the light
meadow grass. A head lifts now and then
and eyes roll sideways, whitepaned by a bright
fish-mirror glimmer from the stream
riverward, as rowers sharply push
their boat, a black dot on the steely gleam
across an eye, another speck in rush.

These vagrant animals, left here these ten
days, chew gravely at the yellow-thin
meadow grass. Tails swish upward when
the wind suggests a fly. Time roars within
their poised, unblinking eyes. Old bones know
Few shadows from new trees await them now.

DopeBeastie

i chew vaguely at the light, myself...


digging the "time roars in their unblinking eye"...

a fascinating catch in word, there, fins... bravo

FinsburyParkCarrots

Originally posted by PastaNazi
i chew vaguely at the light, myself...


digging the "time roars in their unblinking eye"...

a fascinating catch in word, there, fins... bravo

Thank you, Pasta.

DopeBeastie

horse's eyes are really cool... thank you for capturing that

FinsburyParkCarrots

It's that sideways stare, as if they're busting their eyestrings to swivel them the full ninety. Horses' eyes are so huge and brown and reflective, and everything's in them. I mean everything.

DopeBeastie

everything and nothing at the same time

i get you... definitely

FinsburyParkCarrots

Zen.