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by Jimmy O'Connell
Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:37 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: My Prayer in Pig Latin
Replies: 9
Views: 2432

Fun

Fun

It is so much fun
to believe in G-d
You must try it sometime
try it now
and find out whether
or not
G-d wants you
to believe in Him

L. C.
Book of Longing p 49
by Jimmy O'Connell
Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:24 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: The Eleventh of September Two Thousand and One
Replies: 2
Views: 990

The Eleventh of September Two Thousand and One

The Eleventh of September Two Thousand and One Have you forgotten the dirge keening across the acrid landscape of your heart, forgotten how the paleness of your grief has transformed you into a knot of hate gnawing at the bone of your anger? What will you destroy from the aeons our common humanity ...
by Jimmy O'Connell
Fri Feb 16, 2007 1:07 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Her Line was Straight
Replies: 4
Views: 781

No Liz... didn't write the poem about a snake... which one is that?

Thanks Diane... thought you might appreciate the zen in the poem!!

Jimmy
by Jimmy O'Connell
Thu Feb 15, 2007 11:34 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Her Line was Straight
Replies: 4
Views: 781

Her Line was Straight

Her Line was Straight Her line was straight erect stiff yet solaced Her feet firmly foundational barefoot on sand dusted stone Her hair her hair her hair fell trestling warbling raven between the line of sea horizon blue grey non-shimmering stiff and between the line imagined from her feet on flat ...
by Jimmy O'Connell
Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:35 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Zambian Diptych
Replies: 8
Views: 1713

Wow... Diane....
I didn't realise Wallace Stevens wrote a poem on the Cliff of Moher.... or more accurately on the theme of... or inspired by... the Cliffs of Moher... must chase that one down.

Jimmy
by Jimmy O'Connell
Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:30 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Zambian Diptych
Replies: 8
Views: 1713

Thanks for the positive comments. I spent three months teaching in Zambia many years ago. Diptych is a folding tablet... its common for Greek Icons to fold into one another like two covers of a book. I called this poem a diptych because I saw my experiences as two-fold. There was an overlay of my ow...
by Jimmy O'Connell
Tue Feb 06, 2007 10:25 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Zambian Diptych
Replies: 8
Views: 1713

Zambian Diptych

Zambian Diptych I By the smoky grass huts of Mangango, through the deep green sleep of bush, we drive over hill after hill of orange dirt-track, rattling and bouncing in a rust-pocked Land Rover; a gush-swirl of dust trails behind. With a snatch of tribal dance, gaggling children run to greet us, h...
by Jimmy O'Connell
Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:33 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Except
Replies: 1
Views: 485

Except

Except Except for the usual small talk we walked up to the Park without waking the thrush clash of our minds. I watched you from behind your hair shone in the green stem of evening. A shock wave of fused blood stirred fearfully in me. A finger probe of breeze whipped your hair into a frown as we fe...
by Jimmy O'Connell
Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:47 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: How Conventional is Loss?
Replies: 1
Views: 642

How Conventional is Loss?

How Conventional is Loss ? I This is a recurring memory, an image seared to fossil: the classroom brown-tanned parquet floor ripples in a cheerless sun dance below a June cloud of puffled blue sky. Then, at lunch break, I will, for the last time, make a dash for the penny Kinner and, if I’m lucky, ...
by Jimmy O'Connell
Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:08 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: From a School Room
Replies: 7
Views: 1965

Thank you for the reactions. I don't like "explaining" poems. A poem,I believe, has its own life, and it takes on another life as each reader reads it. I will explain further my poem, though I am uncomfortable doing so, but I see it as a useful exercise. The poem is fourteen lines long the...
by Jimmy O'Connell
Mon Jan 08, 2007 1:54 am
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: From a School Room
Replies: 7
Views: 1965

Very sharp Laurie. It is syllabic 7 7 8 7 7 8 with final couplet 10 10... The poem was inspired by my time in Baltimore as a School Counsellor. The girl actually had two pencils, one "skewered" into her hair and was using the other to draw. The question raised at the end of the poem is tie...
by Jimmy O'Connell
Sun Jan 07, 2007 10:44 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: From a School Room
Replies: 7
Views: 1965

From a School Room

From a School Room She skewers a Little Mermaid pencil through her tight packed black ponytail -- erases with self- disgusted intensity and blows rubber dust into the traffic rattled morning air. On Eager St. a ghetto blaster raps shush-be-doo-dum shush-shush-be-doo-dum... “That Avay Maria, she in ...
by Jimmy O'Connell
Fri Dec 08, 2006 9:45 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: A Bus Ride
Replies: 5
Views: 1300

A Bus Ride

A Bus Ride It was an evening of grey sky with the sun scything through the bland thickness of cloud -- the overhang of jealous autumn preventing summer from returning. Nothing exceptional, about this bus ride, except that instead of riding upstairs I sat instead, traffic side, downstairs, where a s...
by Jimmy O'Connell
Sat Nov 25, 2006 9:43 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Icescape
Replies: 1
Views: 502

Icescape

Icescape I drive to work each day this winter, hands, eyes and feet on automatic pilot; anticipate lane changes, adjust the steering and gears; the foot squeezing the brakes carefully, synchronize speed on icy patches. My other mind, oblivious to the ingenious mechanics of my body, is occupied inst...
by Jimmy O'Connell
Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:35 pm
Forum: Writing, Music and Art by the Forum members
Topic: Interstate 95 - A Winter Advisory
Replies: 4
Views: 977

Interstate 95 - A Winter Advisory

Interstate 95 - A Winter Advisory Returning to you it took four and a half hours just to reach the New Jersey Turnpike in traffic that log-jammed, the worst in living memory. On Interstate 95 a Mack truck jack-knifed on the ice, its cab and left wheels scrunched like cardboard into the cement barri...

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