Space calls the soul landscapes know how
create themselves in space they leave
around themselves and balance it
with space displaced
counterbalanced
the two are one mould and moulded
each is either each moulds other
neither supreme
looking at one do you see both
do you focus tiny detail
or do eyes sweep like T.V. guns
refreshing screens
space is solid sweep and focus
miss the solid
look deeply in as if into
a lover's eyes
the landscape is the more sublime
the more the two
are equalised
artists have tools to show this space
in paint or stone but where are words
for poets' use how can language
describe a space solidify
it in the mind and give it weight
to equal flint or sycamores
when landscape calls and shape is seen
to shape the call when heft is felt
how sculptural the rest becomes!
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Saturday, 10 September 2011
Giving Space Its Due
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I've read this several times and am beginning to understand it. Too much brain exercise for a Saturday morning;-)
I read this and see this as an extension of your landart. Nice word painting. Well balanced.
A nicely constructed piece and its layout forces one to take time over reading it what with those huge leaps from column to column (interesting that at this time of year you’d construct a poem of two ‘towers’ like this). I read it over several times. Most thought-provoking but, today at least, I have nothing to add.
Dave, you must have a gun to your head the way you're cranking out these gems... Tell your assailant thank you. :)
I got an image of wide open spaces across a vast landscape :-).
Very cool. Sweep and focus I shall indeed.
Neat, mind tangler. I admire your way with the words!
jabblog
Apologies, not the intention. It was something of a dry run for today.
The Unknowingnome
You are not wrong. I guess my central interest - certainly at the moment - is with landscape, though I don't have a special one in land art as suc, but I do think that it overlaps with much else. It all comes down to definitions.
Jim
I suspect that's great anticipation on your part! In fact I was writing these two poems together. I wrote them first with lines of four syllables, didn't feel it was quite right, so conflated them into lines of eight. That still didn't feel right, so I tried splittimg the lines - first with yesterday's. That's whenthe idea of the two towers struck. I think that's Jim 1: Dave 0! Nice comment. Thanks.
David
It's that ole devil man! He behind me all the time!
Windsmoke
That's marvellous. Now I need to know what formed the image so that I can bottle it. Thanks.
Carl
Good on ya, Carl!
ArtistUnplugged
Good to have you visiting again. Thanks for the kind comment.
Vivid poetry. I loved it! I am amazed by its structure.
Jack
Welcome, good to have you visiting. Thanks for saying what you felt. (Apologies for not responding earlier.)
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