Read as a whole body of work (which has taken me many months) Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poetry is a tragic and audacious testament to an extraordinary creative spirit. #gerardmanleyhopkins#poetry#books#bookstadon@bookstadon
"Honestly you need to access a second opinion on
matters of the present moment without taking
the time to read over what it is you're
just not getting anymore"
You could spend hours pouring over
the encrypted book collection
at the old town library.
But when others have tried
and failed, why bother?
All has been lost:
We've misplaced
the one
key
"so I look at them and look at them until
one thing makes a mirror in my eyes
then I paint it with the tear to make it bright.
This is why I sit up through the night."
Today, we announce the names of the contributors to Volume 5 of our PoArtMo Anthology! One of them is none other than the wonderful @MarjoleinRotsteeg !
I watched the turquoise pastel
melt between your fingerpads;
how later you flayed
the waxen surface back
to the sunflower patch
of a forethought, your
instrument an upturned
brush, flaked to the grain -
the fusty sugar paper buckled.
You upended everything,
always careless of things:
finest sables splayed
under their own weight,
weeks forgotten - to emerge
gunged, from the silted
floor of a chemical jamjar.
I tidied, like a verger
or prefect, purging
with the stream from the oil-
fingered tap. Stop,
you said, printing
my elbow with a rusty index,
pointing past an ancient
meal's craquelured dish
to the oyster-crust
at the edge of an unscraped palette -
chewy rainbow, blistered jewels.
-- 'A Painting' by Sarah Howe #VerseThursday#TodaysPoem#poetry@poetry