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Poetry should do more

than just say something.

  

 

Glamaig 

  

 

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



SOME OF THE POETS I ADMIRE:

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!

Sailor Ptolema - talent 

notorious - hope for the future 

vaguelyfamiliar - more hope for the future

redbird - gosh!

 

  

 

 

Brodgar, Orkney 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • 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

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    This has been making my hair stand on end today - a Sacred Harp version of Charles Wesley's hymn tune  Idumea  ( And Am I Born To Die ). This kind of full-throated choral singing is heard mainly amongst rural congregations in the USA, and comes from the "shape note" music whereby itinerant p
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    ... to say that updated news of items selected for publication is now on  my web site  and  my blog . 1   2 M. 
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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 y
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