tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4195907108786172736.post2755114780398455364..comments2023-03-29T12:32:19.224+02:00Comments on Compasses: What on earth shall I draw to day?Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4195907108786172736.post-28329225450307260112010-01-12T07:25:51.698+01:002010-01-12T07:25:51.698+01:00A darkly rich poem for artists everywhere.A darkly rich poem for artists everywhere.herhimnbrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01182397064631016552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4195907108786172736.post-21226449319688527072010-01-11T00:09:40.448+01:002010-01-11T00:09:40.448+01:00I love this poem and am adding it to my favourites...I love this poem and am adding it to my favourites so I can read it again and again. It is one of those poems from which I will get something new each time I read it.<br />:)PurestGreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10860331983741242940noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4195907108786172736.post-39068584692041794552010-01-10T18:55:39.988+01:002010-01-10T18:55:39.988+01:00I am immensely enjoying the sequence as it is evol...I am immensely enjoying the sequence as it is evolving. Each poem deepens and widens the net. This poem works extremely well with its musical lines and as Barret points out flowing syntax. I love the images too: "Watch fissures in walls and faces,/Narrow and wry, where lenses/Cannot go.." and "just a line/To wire the air.." conjures much.Lucashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07642126053527835870noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4195907108786172736.post-24196158759039993902010-01-10T12:08:33.420+01:002010-01-10T12:08:33.420+01:00Interesting, BB; I am habitually leery of one lin...Interesting, BB; I am habitually leery of one line, and have even nagged Joe in the past to break things up a bit into stanzas, yet I didn't even really register that this was all in one piece, it just felt and ran so right...Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4195907108786172736.post-32664088446955574162010-01-10T11:31:04.202+01:002010-01-10T11:31:04.202+01:00This may be a small matter for you but for me it&#...This may be a small matter for you but for me it's a much firmer shove to my elbow. The ability to sustain the poetic line from beginning to end rather than break it up (as I find myself doing with sonnets) into 3 x 4 lines and 1 x 2 lines, the penalty I pay for a rigid format. But that's only the start. I particularly like "your eyes on the scrounge" which deliberately de-romanticises the initial act of creation: people who don't know talk airily of "inspiration", those who do go out like miners, armed with a shovel. Preceded, of course, by lines which describe the way the eyes and tools are prepared and leading on to a dash of quantum theory.<br /><br />But the best thing of all is that you draw on experience that is outside the "poetic", touching on subjects that are thought too hard, too obscure. There's a wide range of implications in "Answer if you can on the way, The questions that come up." and I hope I'm not being naive in imagining that the lacquered Chinese box could have contained, or might contain, the famous cat. Eclectic is a word bandied about too easily but this is eclecticism at its best, a demonstration that there's a world beyond the visual and the psychological and its thrilling nature deserves good poetry.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4195907108786172736.post-6551840949644530282010-01-10T05:42:42.863+01:002010-01-10T05:42:42.863+01:00Such a wonderful collaboration, Joe and Lucy! I...Such a wonderful collaboration, Joe and Lucy! I'm pleased to see it continuing, and this poem is especially close to my art-heart.marja-leenahttp://www.marja-leena-rathje.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4195907108786172736.post-46055874367948019422010-01-09T19:16:23.087+01:002010-01-09T19:16:23.087+01:00This is wonderful, Plutarch. It does, as BB notes...This is wonderful, Plutarch. It does, as BB notes, roll along like a wave and takes the reader to unexpected places in her (my) soul, a place full of memory - and longing for something unnameable, almost sacred.<br /><br />Tangerine-scented soup...hmmm...The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4195907108786172736.post-4015240415665334122010-01-09T18:35:41.197+01:002010-01-09T18:35:41.197+01:00Rolling like one those waves that carries a surfer...Rolling like one those waves that carries a surfer further than he has any right to expect. But I am detained elsewhere and will be back.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.com