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Re: Dark Poetry
This poem really messed with me when I was a kid. And it still does. I credit both Carroll and Tenniel for my unease. It is partly responsible for setting me on the path to being a near vegetarian. (I like a pepperoni pizza now and again).
http://www.jabberwocky.com/carroll/walrus.html Gahan Wilson wrote a very nice horror story based on this poem. http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/clas...son/index.html | |||||||||||
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Leonard Cline, Stars
Lover, lover, laughing by, If life seem brief and earth seem fair, For you is not the darkling sky And lonely constellations there: Lest you should gaze upon a star And think how pale dead women are. But when at last your heart is bled Of hope and drained at last of song, You will find comfort overhead Though earth be drear and life be long: For you will gaze upon a star And think how peaceful dead men are. |
(Dictated while taking a stroll) I have come to realizewhat a superbly contrived marionette man is. Though without strings attached, one can strut, jump, hop and, moreover, utter words, an elaborately made puppet! Who knows? At the Bon season next year, I may be a new dead invited to the Bon festival. What an evanescent world! This truth keeps slipping off our minds.
- Tsunetomo Yamamoto, The Hagakure |
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07-02-2008 | #43 | |||||||||||
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"Song of the Stranger" by Edmond Jabès (1912-1991), translated from the French by Rosmarie Waldrop
I'm looking for a man I don't know, who's never been more myself than since I started to look for him. Does he have my eyes, my hands and all those thoughts like flotsam of time? Season of a thousand wrecks, the sea no longer a sea, but an icy watery grave. Yet farther on, who knows how it goes on? A little girl sings backward and nightly reigns over trees a shepherdess among her sheep. Let us wrench thirst from the grain of salt no drink can quench. Along with the stones, a whole world eats its heart out, being from nowhere, like me. | |||||||||||
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07-15-2008 | #44 |
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Necromancy
Clark Ashton Smith My heart is made a necromancer's glass, Where homeless forms and exile phantoms teem, Where faces of forgotten sorrows gleam And dead despairs archaic peer and pass: Grey longings of some weary heart that was Possess me, and the multiple, supreme, Unwildered hope and star-emblazoned dream Of questing armies. . . Ancient queen and lass, Risen vampire-like from out the wormy mould, Deep in the magic mirror of my heart Behold their perished beauty, and depart. And now, from black aphelions far and cold, Swimming in deathly light on charnel skies, The enormous ghosts of bygone worlds arise. |
(Dictated while taking a stroll) I have come to realizewhat a superbly contrived marionette man is. Though without strings attached, one can strut, jump, hop and, moreover, utter words, an elaborately made puppet! Who knows? At the Bon season next year, I may be a new dead invited to the Bon festival. What an evanescent world! This truth keeps slipping off our minds.
- Tsunetomo Yamamoto, The Hagakure |
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07-15-2008 | #45 |
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The Kingdom of Shadows
Clark Ashton Smith A crownless king who reigns alone, I live within this ashen land, Where winds rebuild from wandering sand My columns and my crumbled throne. My sway is on the men that were, And wan sweet women, dear and dead; Beside a marble queen, my bed Is made within this sepulcher. In gardens desolate to the sun, Faring alone, I sigh to find The dusty closes, dim and blind, Where winter and the spring are one. My shadowy visage,grey with grief, In sunken waters walled with sand, I see- where all mine ancient land Lies yellow like an autumn leaf. My silver lutes of subtle string, Are rust- but on the grievous breeze I hear what sobbing memories, And muted sorrows murmuring! Across the broken monuments, Memorial of the dreams of old, The sunset flings a ghostly gold To mock mine ancient affluence. About the tombs of stone and brass, The silver lights of evening flee; And slowly now, and solemnly, I see the pomp of shadows pass. Often, beneath some fervid moon, With splendid spells I vainly strive Dead loves imperial to revive, And speak a heart-remembered rune- But, ah, the lovely phantoms fail, The faces fade to mist and light, The vermeil lips of my delight Are dim, the eyes are ashen-pale. A crownless king who reigns alone, I live within this ashen land, Where winds rebuild from wandering sand My columns and my crumbled throne. |
(Dictated while taking a stroll) I have come to realizewhat a superbly contrived marionette man is. Though without strings attached, one can strut, jump, hop and, moreover, utter words, an elaborately made puppet! Who knows? At the Bon season next year, I may be a new dead invited to the Bon festival. What an evanescent world! This truth keeps slipping off our minds.
- Tsunetomo Yamamoto, The Hagakure |
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07-15-2008 | #46 |
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(and closing with the swan song on my favorite cycle of CAS)
Zothique Clark Ashton Smith He who has trod the shadows of Zothique And looked upon the coal-red sun oblique, Henceforth returns to no anterior land, But haunts a later coast Where cities crumble in the black sea-sand And dead gods drink the brine. He who has known the gardens of Zothique Where bleed the fruits torn by the simorgh's beak, Savors no fruit of greener hemispheres: In arbors uttermost, In sunset cycles of the sombering years, He sips an amaranth wine. He who has loved the wild girls of Zothique Shall not come back a gentler love to seek, Nor know the vampire's from the lover's kiss: For him the scarlet ghost Of Lilith from time's last necropolis Rears amorous and malign. He who has sailed in galleys of Zothique And seen the looming of strange spire and peak, Must face again the sorcerer-sent typhoon, And take the steerer's post On far-poured oceans by the shifted moon Or the re-shapen Sign. btw. the poetry volumes of CAS are finally available at Hippocampus Press- just as a side note, Hippocampus Press..... |
(Dictated while taking a stroll) I have come to realizewhat a superbly contrived marionette man is. Though without strings attached, one can strut, jump, hop and, moreover, utter words, an elaborately made puppet! Who knows? At the Bon season next year, I may be a new dead invited to the Bon festival. What an evanescent world! This truth keeps slipping off our minds.
- Tsunetomo Yamamoto, The Hagakure Last edited by Cyril Tourneur; 07-15-2008 at 05:47 PM.. |
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07-15-2008 | #47 |
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one of my favorite poems by EA Poe hasn't been cited yet (i always have this SA song in mind when reading this)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=X5ei4OjXiV0 Eldorado Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old— This knight so bold— And o'er his heart a shadow Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow— "Shadow," said he, "Where can it be— This land of Eldorado?" "Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride," The shade replied— "If you seek for Eldorado!" |
(Dictated while taking a stroll) I have come to realizewhat a superbly contrived marionette man is. Though without strings attached, one can strut, jump, hop and, moreover, utter words, an elaborately made puppet! Who knows? At the Bon season next year, I may be a new dead invited to the Bon festival. What an evanescent world! This truth keeps slipping off our minds.
- Tsunetomo Yamamoto, The Hagakure |
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07-15-2008 | #48 | |||||||||||
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One of my favourite poems of a great American poet -
Madame la Fleurie Weight him down, O side-stars, with the great weightings of the end. Seal him there. He looked in a glass of the earth and thought he lived in it. Now, he brings all that he saw into the earth, to the waiting parent. His crisp knowledge is devoured by her, beneath a dew. Weight him, weight, weight him with the sleepiness of the moon. It was only a glass because he looked in it. It was nothing he could be told. It was a language he spoke, because he must, yet did not know. It was a page he had found in the handbook of heartbreak. The black fugatos are strumming the blackness of black... The thick strings stutter the finial gutturals. He does not lie there remembering the blue-jay, say the jay. His grief is that his mother should feed on him, himself and what he saw, In that distant chamber, a bearded queen, wicked in her dead light. Wallace Stevens | |||||||||||
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"Verrà la morte e avrà i tuoi occhi" (pub. 1951) by Cesare Pavese, translated by Geoffrey Brock
Death will come and will have your eyes-- this death that accompanies us from morning till evening, unsleeping, deaf, like an old remorse or an absurd vice. Your eyes will be a useless word, a suppressed cry, a silence. That's what you see each morning when alone with yourself you lean toward the mirror. O precious hope, that day we too will know that you are life and you are nothingness. Death has a look for everyone. Death will come and will have your eyes. It will be like renouncing a vice, like seeing a dead face reappear in the mirror, like listening to a lip that's shut. We'll go down into the maelstrom mute. | |||||||||||
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David Park Barnitz
Mankind They do not know that they are wholly dead, Nor that their bodies are to the worm given o’er; They pass beneath the sky forevermore; With their dead flesh the earth is cumbered. Each day they drink of wine and eat of bread, And do the things that they have done before; And yet their hearts are rotten to the core, And from their eyes the light of life is fled. Surely the sun is weary of their breath; They have no ears, and they are dumb and blind; Long time their bodies hunger for the grave. How long, O God, shall these dead corpses rave? When shall the earth be clean of humankind? When shall the sky cease to behold this death? | |||||||||||
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