tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post4142922402278969189..comments2023-12-28T13:11:06.666+00:00Comments on Pics and Poems: The Marriage of Beauty and BanalityDave Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-73803885243599359352012-06-10T01:51:31.039+01:002012-06-10T01:51:31.039+01:00I really enjoyed this amazing work you came out wi...I really enjoyed this amazing work you came out with. And to think that this world was completely created by our "waste". In time, all of us is buried. The eyeless and earless reference is haunting. So true, use it or lose it! I think we're losing it..<br /><br />Excellent!Bodhirosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12630769135515322096noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-60273556695561388952012-06-09T09:26:10.602+01:002012-06-09T09:26:10.602+01:00Jenny
True, very true - and just as well, methinks...<b>Jenny</b><br />True, very true - and just as well, methinks. <br /><br /><b>aprille </b><br />Oh, I do so love that: Lord X, Baron of Landfill! So thanks for setting me off with a mischievous guffaw this morning.<br /><br /><b>Brian </b><br />Yup, looking at it again in the cold light of dawn, I do think the wedding scene needs a bit more work. Thanks for your thoughts.<br /><br /><b>Hank </b><br />Very true. We - in this country especially - have ben very remiss.<br /><br /><b>Charles </b><br /><i>archiving so much discarded desire</i> - powerful phrase with potent reverberations: wish I'd thought of it! Thank you so much for it and for the rest of your kind critique. I truly value it.<br /><br /><b>manicddaily </b><br />A really delightful critique to receive. Thank you so much for it - you flatter me in the matter of the stuffed parade: I hadn't thought of altar pieces. Wish I had! Thanks again.<br /><br /><b>Kat </b><br />Much obliged to you for your kind words - and for the flattering suggestion. I have started to look around, but so far the publishers I've thought suitable are loathe to take work already published on the web. I shall keep looking - and if any friend out there knows one... Thanks so much for your support.<br /><br />A medieval allegory... mad assortment of characters... yes, I see all that!!!<br /><br /><b>Laurie </b><br />Thanks Laurie. Much appreciated.<br /><br /><b>Daydreamer too </b><br />Lovely response to get, I am so grateful for it. Love the references you make to your uncle and your own visit to such a site. It came in part from my interest in landscape, and here was one that many people would think a non-landscape and, yes, a chance to indulge in a bit of surrealism!<br /><br /><b>Susan </b><br />Yes, excellent, I like your thinking, especially as it ends with Bosch! What a marvellous finale to the accumulation of trivia! Me like much! Thanks for your thoughts, they've already set mine in motion!<br />Thanks too, for your visit. Really good to have you aboard.<br /><br /><b>hedgewitch </b><br />Thanks for these wonderful thoughts - the middens of the archeological dig... Oh, I like this so much! And yes, there's a whole library of stories, poems and thoughts, to be unearthed on the theme of what we bury there. Thanks for saying.<br /><br /><b>Rachna </b><br />Thanks for this - I was a little worried that it was too long. Wasn't meant to be: like Topsy it "just growed"! <br /><br /><b>Victoria </b><br />You are correct in your supposition. Yes, there was no burning of the midnight oil. It was an easy birth. Maybe the complications will come later - after I've lived with it for a while.<br /><br /><b>Rosemary </b><br />Welcome to the blog. Really good to have you visiting.<br />Thanks for this useful bit of feedback. Much appreciated.<br /><br /><b>Mary </b><br />Good of you to say so. Really appreciate your thoughts.<br /><br /><b>haricot</b><br />Thank you for your kind response. Your comments are always good to have.Dave Kinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430484174826768488noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-66661589992944524222012-06-09T04:04:20.190+01:002012-06-09T04:04:20.190+01:00You do such enormous work, Dave.
In this many line...You do such enormous work, Dave.<br />In this many lines I found some elements you mentioned in the last poem; some symbolic reborn and death.haricothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14052133324297115131noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-73625452053764966792012-06-09T02:30:40.023+01:002012-06-09T02:30:40.023+01:00I agree with the ambitiousness of this poem, Dave....I agree with the ambitiousness of this poem, Dave. This is surely one of your best!Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07366010389846904663noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-85874495293517982482012-06-08T17:08:54.454+01:002012-06-08T17:08:54.454+01:00I like these sections:
"and a doll,
her batt...I like these sections:<br /><br />"and a doll,<br />her battered head in duct tape turban,<br />splattered blood and mud, beside a leprechaun<br />and woolly lion with tangled mane"<br /><br />"A rocking horse is caught<br />in razor wire"<br /><br />"We artists<br />are the unicorns who walk the grim banality of grime"<br /><br />"The wedding guests are eyeless"<br /><br />"No object comes untrammelled"rosemary minthttp://rosemarymint.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-5611865085684286042012-06-08T17:08:30.359+01:002012-06-08T17:08:30.359+01:00What can I say about the brilliance of this poem, ...What can I say about the brilliance of this poem, Dave? There are so many layers, so much meaning. The imagery, analogies so well thought-out. I suspect that this is one of those works that you wrote almost without labor, kind of like channeling.Victoriahttp://liv2write2day.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-54887111970551846882012-06-08T16:53:08.115+01:002012-06-08T16:53:08.115+01:00My God, this was one really long poem, one I thoro...My God, this was one really long poem, one I thoroughly enjoyed.Rachna Chhabriahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16900999965919504282noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-85669159659809219072012-06-08T16:42:27.917+01:002012-06-08T16:42:27.917+01:00that should be whims, not 'wins'--new keyb...that should be whims, not 'wins'--new keyboard is giving me fits.hedgewitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090696134322515899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-12142712498474959982012-06-08T16:41:29.641+01:002012-06-08T16:41:29.641+01:00You develop your themes so well in this David--Bea...You develop your themes so well in this David--Beauty and Banality indeed, and the ever mounting landfill of uselessness that is our alien, unnatural life--like the middens of an archeological dig, everything we create and destroy on our wins, purposeful, sentimental or symbolic, is buried there, defining us, defining our Sacred. A fine, perfectly constructed poem, with every word effective.hedgewitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13090696134322515899noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-79221454342162837052012-06-08T14:54:31.782+01:002012-06-08T14:54:31.782+01:00I loved the 4 sentries so much, I thought they cou...I loved the 4 sentries so much, I thought they could stand alone as a poem--and then to have them stand witness to this grotesque marriage! I totally enjoyed it. See what happens when the trivial accumulates? Nothing is banal without leading to worse, and after the 20th century banality of evil,where do we go but into a live reality ala Hieronymus Bosch!Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05723639294340760325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-61394219819765943372012-06-08T13:19:46.497+01:002012-06-08T13:19:46.497+01:00Wow... this is fabulous. My uncle was a dustman an...Wow... this is fabulous. My uncle was a dustman and he used to collect all kinds of neat things other people threw away. He took me to the landfill site one day. Apart from the dreadful stink, I saw a dead cat in the pile and he told me people throw anything and everything into the garbage, including dead animals.<br />This was an epic of a tale Dave. I could see it all in my mind's eye as I was reading. Very surreal and out of this world and yet, it is also very real really too.<br />Yes, an epic of a tale so well told.<br />Enjoyed it very much!Daydreamertoohttp://daydreamertoo.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-16990986016086753962012-06-08T12:51:35.605+01:002012-06-08T12:51:35.605+01:00Ahh... imaginative and thought-provoking!Ahh... imaginative and thought-provoking!Laurie Kolphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07494759781947881343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-74466962248150495302012-06-08T12:47:41.714+01:002012-06-08T12:47:41.714+01:00P.S. duct-tape is very popular today
Oh, and your...P.S. duct-tape is very popular today<br />Oh, and your poem (on further thought) is rather like one of the medieval allegories with its mad assortment of characters.Kat Mortensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877694888419628533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-87716729602905270632012-06-08T12:45:27.033+01:002012-06-08T12:45:27.033+01:00My goodness, this is a magnum opus!
I found eleme...My goodness, this is a magnum opus!<br /><br />I found elements of pure genius here ( and would quote them if I were not single-digit typing on a 2x5 keyboard (inches).<br /><br />It occurred to me as I read this, how much I (and indeed many) would benefit from a good old fashioned book filled with your great work. Think about that.<br /><br />KatKat Mortensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16877694888419628533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-91853781774701777722012-06-08T12:31:07.553+01:002012-06-08T12:31:07.553+01:00Hi Dave - this is a very ambitious poem that meets...Hi Dave - this is a very ambitious poem that meets its ambitions and more - I especially liked the beginning with the stuffed parade (altar pieces?) and the ongoing coupling of beauty banality, decay taking over - the raising of the cathedral floor ( the marriage part very clever.) An interesting mix of how we alienate ourselves with all this stuff, and how alien it becomes when looming large - the lion's mouth. <br /><br />Well done. k.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-68185892965179738462012-06-08T12:13:53.814+01:002012-06-08T12:13:53.814+01:00This really brings together so many of the themes ...This really brings together so many of the themes of what it might to be alien. Turning the landfill into a symbol of what was once normal become the land of no return, a modern nether world archiving so much discarded desire, banished to this refuse bin of the Holy! Your narrative is superlative, you describe its details so realistically, plotting out the place this junk has in nothingness. I think you've created a marvelous correlate to those otherworldly journeys from old, delving deply in the process into the soul of our overly material culture. I enjoyed it immensely.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08784125345525784337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-37495837925199858932012-06-08T11:44:41.109+01:002012-06-08T11:44:41.109+01:00The curse that afflicts human kind. Of banality of...The curse that afflicts human kind. Of banality of landfills that keep growing, upwards and sideways.Rubbish that could have found its way for recycling but struck against the environment. Powerful verse Dave!<br /><br />Hankkaykualahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03240206222973305395noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-18624307473865549512012-06-08T11:25:04.395+01:002012-06-08T11:25:04.395+01:00We artists
are the unicorns who walk
...We artists<br />are the unicorns who walk<br /> the grim banality of grime....nice line man....the wedding crowd scene, having lost its part is rather intense...wow sir this is top notch stuff....Brian Millerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00722940075884718007noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-22327630779797293522012-06-08T09:59:30.878+01:002012-06-08T09:59:30.878+01:00A gruesome nightmare, too tinged with reality to t...A gruesome nightmare, too tinged with reality to take it lightly. I feel I need a second shower now.<br />The second tour-de-force peom I have read this morning.<br /><br />The only bit of humour I could extract to make me want my breakfast is the idea of somebody being invited into the House of Lords and given the title: Lord X, Baron of Landfill.<br />Well, humour is a safety valve, and this requires one.Janine Bolléehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09857073674960699155noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2508563923634392703.post-48523380785677169222012-06-08T09:53:37.153+01:002012-06-08T09:53:37.153+01:00Nature always wins, because it's alive and the...Nature always wins, because it's alive and these other things never were alive, they were just symbols of life.Jenny Woolfhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16881781466502273314noreply@blogger.com