Well…its been a while. Various reasons for this 1) No internet at home, 2) Lysistrata, 3) Lack of decent material…
But
here I am, back in the blogging world! I feel the need to update this
page with everything that I have been doing and thinking over the past
two months but to be frank I wouldn’t know where to begin. So, I’ll
keep it simple.
Here’s a poem about nature:
Sketches from the natural world
The canopy rolls, mirroring the clouds
riding wind currents,
plaiting their way between the tropics.
The moist Arden ground
is patterned with leaves that
layer
upon
layer
build seasonal mosaics, a shifting
kaleidoscope, as
dappled
sunlight
sways
across
the
forest floor.
Dead leaves fallen; damp rot on pruned branches
breeding luminous fungi; autumn
is the season of beautiful decay.
An anorexic tree;
uniform rows of shrivelled leaves curled in on themselves
like paralyzed hands,
rippling veins vacuum-packed beneath their dried skin.
They droop,
like sleepy bats clutching an unlikely perch
beneath the sun.
A weed in half-light
Framed by white-washed bricks
becomes the messy hand-print
of a pre-school child.
Satin river, silent as space,
slips over submerged sand dunes
and distorts them beneath
water’s inconsistent camber –
Shattered
pierced by the whine of a dog.
NB:
‘layer/upon/layer’ and ‘dappled/sunlight/sways/across/the/forest floor’
are supposed to be staggered across the page but this editor won’t let
me do it!
Well, its been a long time since I last posted, mainly because I hae no
internet at home and secondly because the production of Lysistrata has
taken over my lafe for the past 5 weeks. It has been
Writing about web page /tleach/entry/abandon_all_hope/
Writing about an entry you don’t have permission to view
Following up to Timo’s Hell test, here are my own scores…
The Dante’s Inferno Test has sent you to the First Level of Hell – Limbo!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Level | Score |
---|---|
Purgatory (Repenting Believers) | Low |
Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) | High |
Level 2 (Lustful) | Moderate |
Level 3 (Gluttonous) | Moderate |
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious) | Low |
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy) | Low |
Level 6 – The City of Dis (Heretics) | Very Low |
Level 7 (Violent) | Moderate |
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers) | Moderate |
Level 9 – Cocytus (Treacherous) | Low |
Take the Dante’s Inferno Test
Just to mention, Limbo sounds pretty boring but check out the blurb on it and you may change your mind:
Charon
ushers you across the river Acheron, and you find yourself upon the
brink of grief’s abysmal valley. You are in Limbo, a place of sorrow
without torment. You encounter a seven–walled castle, and within those
walls you find rolling fresh meadows illuminated by the light of
reason, whereabout many shades dwell. These are the virtuous pagans,
the great philosophers and authors, unbaptised children, and others
unfit to enter the kingdom of heaven. You share company with Caesar,
Homer, Virgil, Socrates, and Aristotle. There is no punishment here,
and the atmosphere is peaceful, yet sad.
OK, so its all a bit sad but I am happy to spend eternity with some of the greatest minds in history to keep me company!
What the hell. All my friends at university are far, far too virtuous. I’m still miles in front at level 6.
Back
home I’ve got a friend who made it all the way to level 8. That’s
practically on Satan’s doorstep. But she is from Romford, so I suppose
she would consider it to be an improvement in her living conditions.
Must try harder, people.
I’m with you in Dis.
Heretic! Hurrah!
Get in!
And Sho, moderately gluttonous? I think someone said they preferred good food to sex…
Maybe thats a subconcious cover-up for my gluttonous psyche…
Oh, and welcome Thom!
Yeah, but the way it’s arranged makes it more original.
The same thing, but in a different way.
I think.
—– ——– AUTHOR: Sholeh Johnston
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Really lovely… At once familliar and yet strikingly original. Reminds me of Robert Frost, but infinitely better.
Very
good, there is some top notch imagery sitting in there. “Seasonal
mosaics” and “season of beautiful decay” are particularly striking. Not
sure about the dappled sunlight, its a bit of a cliche, and stands out
amidst such original imagery.