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Henry Austin Dobson, on the craft, quote unquote, The limp and languid listener, what magic

What magic will you find to stir/ The limp and languid listener?

from On the Future of Poetry by Henry Austin Dobson (1840-1921)

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80s fashion, I love Aqua-net, quote unquote, that massive hair, those massive shoulder pads

Naughty bits crammed into massive outfits.

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pillow talk, quote unquote

Be my sun-drenched lurid pear.

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a boy can dream, quote unquote, the difficult poetry cult

Sometimes I think it would be fun to start a cult, but I’m a terribly lazy person so I suppose I’d be putting the “cult” into difficult.

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my oyster knife, quote unquote, Zora Neale Hurston

No, I do not weep at the world — I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Zora Neale Hurston

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ancient Rome, Ingrata patria, Latin, quote unquote, Scipio Africanus, Ungrateful fatherland

‘Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis’ (Ungrateful fatherland, you will not even have my bones) — dying words of Scipio Africanus, the greatest general Rome ever had.

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another lonely night, little blue flower I call mother, me and Sappho keep our secrets, poem, Poetry

Little blue flower, Sappho, 

I’ve been waiting for a 

friend to speak this 

language with but I am 

alone so I speak to myself.

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Lalleshwari: clad only in sky

19 Sunday Apr 2015

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Coleman Barks, female mystic, Kashmiri language, Lalla, Lalleshwari, poems, Poetry, Richard Temple, Shiva, translations, vatsun

These are two translations of the same poem:


Dance, Lalla, with nothing on

but air. Sing, Lalla,

wearing the sky.


Look at this glowing day! What clothes

could be so beautiful, or

more sacred?   

Barks, Coleman. Naked Song. Lalla. Athens, GA: Maypop, (1992)

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Dance then, Lalla, clothed but by the
air;

Sing, thou, Lalla, clad but in the sky.

Air and sky: what garment is more fair?


Dance then Lalla, clothed by the air;

Sing then Lalla, clad but by the sky.

Air and sky; what garmant is more fair?

‘Cloth’, saith custom; ’ doth that
sanctify?’

Temple, Sir Richard Carnac. The
words of Lalla, The Prophetess: Being the sayings of Lal Ded or Lal
Diddhi of Kashmir
. Cambridge University Press (1924)

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Lalleshwari (1320–1392) was a female mystic of the Kashmiri Shaivite sect. She was a creator of the mystic poetry called vatsun or Vakhs, literally “divine speech.”  As a child she was married at the age of 12 into a family that was reported to have regularly mistreated her. After becoming a disciple of Sidh Srikanth, she renounced her material life and marriage to become a devotee of the god Shiva. As a mystic, she wandered naked, reciting her proverbs and quatrain-based poems. Her verses are the earliest compositions in the Kashmiri language and are an important part in history of Kashmiri literature.

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and I used to think iambic pentameters were the greatest aphrodisiacs, quote unquote, science

stand back: I’m about to try science

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hard ardour, quote unquote

Death is bound to be arduous; luckily I am fit for hard ardour.

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