The French

Entrancing, the cataclysmic mind of an angel
Spangling within the soul of a tree!
Flapping like a carrier bag caught on a railing.
Scrawled on a receipt was written the following:
Before it goes there, before it goes,
Back to the beginning, where no money owes,
Where nothing costs nothing
That’s something at that.
Where everything is everything.
Where the poetry is flat.
In these four ruined walls
In this partitioned mind,
Adored and divided -
The hanging, demanding,
Glittery soul
Doesn’t know how to transcendentalise the fuss.
Screwed up into a fidget lump ball
In the pocket of the coat of someone
Throw it away nicely
For another strange aimless person to find
Or aeons of time to immortalise my experience
Of decomposing.
Are you another mind too...

Copyright © 2006 Missemeeg

Comments

[Imajicka]

Apologies to Missemeeg for taking so long in getting this wonderful piece 'The French' up onto its own pedal-stool! I would dearly love to have more time to concentrate on this web-space but life is persistently in my way at present...

However, it was a real pleasure to find a new participant! I can only hope you, Cathy and others will feel compelled to maintain the flow of words in the interim of my somewhat rare silences!

I wouldn't mind discussing the entries if anyone has a mind to? I mean... in this poem I cannot ignore the title: for me, it acts as the mysterious expansion all unto itself, one that enforces the reader return into the main body of text, questing an altered renewel of meaning all over again?

Hum.. great stuff!

Thanks for contributing!

It means a great deal to me to be back in contact - there truly has been no one to fill the void that you left! Gosh, there's so much I want to ask you! You know, I bizarrely, randomly and completely unintentionally ended up at Lands End last September, just for a day, and came close to attempting to find you...

I am (these days)living on the outskirts of London on a busy road, bypassing the economic situation. I love it in the city, plenty to do and see, much fun to be had, though I socialise only ahem slightly.

Technology is awesome isn't it? Guess it's my thing of the moment, it
totally blows me how every organism is affected by it, controlled by it, though most people don't appear to notice, which I find extremely strange to say the least. I got into Arthur C. Clarke and 'science-fiction' as mythopoeia in the final year of the degree and return over and over to this Genre, the crux or backbone of fiction, as it seems to hold the rest together and provide some dimensional stability: a means of communication between technology and the masses. Yer man himself (I believe) was on fbook before he passed on - groovy - in 10 groups relating to global warming as myth. I expect you have some enlightening views on the matter of technology and literature/ language 8)lol
Also on a similar thread is the press and particularly the tabloids.
I've been grinding a literal axe with the tabloids - is it any wonder that they have these crimes to report when generally the folk who read them are statistically more likely to commit crime? Let the world be a positive optimistic happy place! Bring on the good news. Guess my little space in this world is pretty fenced in (carrier bagged). I'm doing my bit to slowly make it better - though I'm not sure I would want to change the state of things - only improve how I see it as and where possible. Nice. What about you? From what I remember of you, you were never one to keep your opinion of any flaw in the system under absolute wrap. What have you been acting on recently? Hope you never give up my lovely. I would love to hear about all the constructive stuff, no matter how futile, that you've put your time into.

Anyhow, it is beautiful to have met someone as intreging as yourself
and see you online from time to time. I trust all is good and it would be great to meet up if ever you head this way. Perhaps I shall return to Kernow in the near future.

Peace on Earth, hope that you enjoy the festivities and sending you alot of love and light for The New Year!

Take care,

Michelle