Poetry should do more
than just say something.
I'm a minor published poet and writer;
follow the link to some of my pieces that have
been accepted for publication: Published works
becoming a mermaid
I recall the fascination when scales
first glittered on my thigh, blue-silver,
moonlight-over-sun;
morning after morning I counted them,
as each bold, tiny, night-laid plate
clothed my legs in lamellar armour
until at last there were too many to count.
My fingers slid over the keratin;
a few cosmoid beauties came away
and shimmered on my palms.
When I noticed that my shoes bit my feet,
and the blades of grass cut like razors,
I was already less a woman,
having one day slipped into the river,
and down to the sea, coming back
for fewer hours every day.
I was more in the company
of manatees and congers,
forgetting how to speak, as the ocean
filled the caverns of my mouth and ears.
Now my hair is kelp, and
my naked breasts two limpet shells
I am all sea creatures and sea forests,
down in the counter-currents
as the storms boil above,
loaning the krill-trails in the half-sleep of the main.
Goodbye.
With a few flicks of my cetacean tail
I will plumb the Marianas,
to bottom-out with the flatfish,
my heart slowed,
flatlining in the silence.
MY AP FAMILY:
Sister (absent) - Toni A Christman
Sister (absent) - Moon Fae
Sister - Amera
Niece - TwistedDesires
Nephew - Lazarus Merlinus
Daughter - shzoosyQ
Brother - cricketjeff
Something unique - PassionsPromise
Brother Bazza
Kissin' Cousin - Dalaney
Sister - SweetJane
Sister - Ceridwens Soul
ea creative thought
maa serenity
Laura Lamarca voice
Bad Bill intensity
DanASBO feeling
lilAj evocation
chordphrute brilliance
Three Egg Omelet - Espaρol
Vera Rich - the translator
EarthToJim - inexhaustible
Lyndon - the Seamer!
notorious - hope for the future
vaguelyfamiliar - more hope for the future
redbird - gosh!
- Member since November 14, 2005.
- I'm a zen master poet for 15,750 comments.
- My mood is , and quote is "- A friend's eye is the best mirror.".
- I am a woman (Scotland)
- When I'm not writing, I'm trying to remember to breathe.
- Visit my homepage at mairibheag.webs.com/
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(73)- I am in the groups Birthday Roasts and Toasts Post, Chamber of Leather and Lace, Corner Stop, Ink Angels Contributing members, Journeys of the Mind, ON VIEWLESS WINGS Anthology 2009, On Viewless Wings Winter Edition 2010, Paul OVWA 2009, Ronaldo and Billy, The Enchanted Realm, The Score, Visions through Haiku, Winklings, Yellow Moon Winklings write Haiku
- I have 15,750 comments, 9 contests, 11 columns, 640 poems, 3 stories, 4 journals
My Lists
- 58 degrees North
- a slap from Buddha's hand
- And we all come up to Limerick
- Bad Salads!
- DQ'd poems!
- Gently Bentley - Clerihews
- Homages to other poets and authors...
- Inspired by the paintings of J W Waterhouse
- Laugh, willya!
- Letters to N'awlins
- Loose Sapphics
- My American Voice
- Paintings by Lesley Haycock
- Poems without the word "cicada" in them
- Published works
- Scotland
- Sketches for "Welshday"
- Sonnets, sonnets, and more bloody sonnets
- Special poems...
- Tarot
- The Celestine canon
- the rustle
- The wraith's complaining mouth
- Wee yellow vases
My Poetry
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14 lines, 21 comments, November 20. In Free Verse, Wild West
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44 lines, 33 comments, October 25. In Free Verse
My Stories
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764 lines, 7 comments, June 28, 2008. In 600-2000 words, Other
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My other items
- Column: A few notes about Neo-Formalist poetry. at allpoetry
On my web site, I categorise myself as a neo-formalist poet. That needs a bit of a gloss. It's simply a point of reference. What is neo-formalism? Has it any place in modern poetry? Does anyone really care? - Column: Jisei at allpoetry
In the Japanese tradition - formal poetry heralding death. Why do I write this? - Column: Esprit sans Dieu at allpoetry
Selected for publication in the December 2008 issue of La Revue Recto-Verseau http://www.recto-verseau.ch/revue.php
Corrections to my French, and footnote on solipsism by Jean-Marc Mantel
My journal entries
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Just a note to my friends, and to people on whose work I most often comment. I have been very tired lately, and unable to write. I have decided to stop worrying about the latter and take this opportunity to rest. Please don't worry too much if you don't hear from me very much for a while. I will still come and read yNovember 12, 100 words. → 19 comments, Add one?
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Old news, I know, but I now have in my hands the back copies of Canadian Zen Haiku in which several of my haiku and senryu appear - four in the Autumn 2008 issue, six in the Summer 2009 issue. They are in English, French, and Scots, and have all been posted here at AP at one time or another. I have updated my webOctober 31, 100 words. → Make first comment?
Guest Book
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Justplainwaynethen on November 1"poetry should do more than just say something", I agree, poetry should mow the lawn for us...
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adios muchachos : Mairi on September 27Loved that Chagrin piece.
Have that, had that, color hair myself once upon a time. Now not as much, and the color is about 50 decibels off.LOL
Goodly writ!
John
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Ceridwens Soul on August 7
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Ceridwens Soul on July 30



