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Sunday, September 9, 2012
TWO POEMS BASED ON BYRON'S PASSAGES IN THE LIBERTÉ TEXTBOOK
Olvido de Byron
“For in it lurks...”,
Lord Byron, The Giaour, 1813
nod focused lint on cliff he
belts the scorned bloody hand
the truly apeish smell invisible
to all but him scurrilous nape
dancing with lice’s grave flash
of’s unearthly wave’s my
ass pyration cornered in the
much of times the glancer f
lopping in my trousers ah
nameless spell !the gazer
slept unspeakable and claims
the bird the sock puppet
met alone ,your pale lip
blister ghastly quivers
!yr swallowed birth dou
bles in that spitting doom
yr dribbling features vulgar
in the wading gloom
¡Quítate los lentes!
- Ramón López Velarde
olvido de Lara
lumpy ,his name forgot ,dan
dled ashes on’s pate while
the others prate their hidden
lot gated with a smoky
door his silence blears
against the walking world’s
hot mud his mirror his
fleshly worm clogged
those thrashing hoses on
his path bedecked with
stopsigns ,ladders ,c
loud giggling of that
secret glass that blood
passed outside what
oval time did start a
swarm of gnats bedecked
his skull a separate
head rotting off’s
offending throne
“His madness was...sought...”
-Lord Byron, Lara, 1814
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Aaaagh! The blog system screwed up, made disappear, the line breaks!! Quel Horreur!
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i still like it, it has a strange compacted claustrophobia
ReplyDeleteThank John! If you email me a pdf of the formatted poem, I can make a direct link to it and post it here.
ReplyDelete"a swarm of gnats bedecked his skull"
There is an appealing thickness to the compacted version, yes............... but I will send the word docs of the 2 poems, maybe you can run those too
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