Posts tagged ‘poem’
A Handful of Stones
I have found a place
full of sparkling clarity
a handful of stones
Grapefruit, Fluxus, and Yoko Ono
Here’s a poem I wrote some years ago following a visit to an exhibition on the Sixties and the Fluxus Movement by Yoko Ono at the Royal Festival Hall. The exhibition was fun and inter-active. There were films including the one where a fly crawls all over a woman’s naked body, and I like bare ladies as you will know if you’ve read my blog before. Reading my poem now it seems a little harsh and critical which are certainly not feelings I have about the exhibition or the artist. I guess it is just an illustration of my reaction to the exhibition and where my head was at the time. Anyway here it is. The formatting hasn’t worked out as the words were originally spaced out differently on the page, but you get the idea. I would love to hear from anyone with an opinion on the poem, the art, Yoko Ono or anything else.
Grape fruit
south bank sixties
retrospective
Art must be seen
to be
effective
anti-art art a scam
and a half
cheeky film and a blank wall
we can nail bits of our
sad selves too
one by one
the flies creep down
your back
Lick their lips and peep
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by struggling against the grain
all you did was prove again
everyone likes a nice arse
nobody likes the smart arts
oh no Yoko
Art is free Art sucks
and nobody gives a flying flux
(by eclectnik)
A Lovely Haiku
It’s not one of mine. I read it in a magazine at the Poetry Library one afternoon when I should have been at work. It’s by a lady called Doreen King, I don’t remember what the magazine was called so apologies to the publisher. Doreen King, thank you – it’s fabulous!
when the rowboat
reaches cherry blossoms
rest the oars
Two New Haiku
Today’s haiku are dedicated to SouthWest Trains (Grrr):
the train now standing
outside Waterloo station
full of frustration
we breathe the same air
germs in germs out commuters
share the common cold
Good haiku should be timeless, ambiguous and reflect nature. Oh well, try again tomorrow.
Haiku of the Day
Actually today is quite mild but this is right for lots of recent mornings.
trees dormant between
green patches on frosted grass
December sun shine
Haiku of the Day
Inspired by a news item I heard on the radio this morning about the problems caused by massive flocks of starlings dumping their droppings over Rome.
The Starlings
graceful flocks above
ancient streets splattered with poop
Rome’s new enemy
