Sunday 11 March 2012

3 non consecutive, consecutive thoughts

Caught up with linking Shakespeare, Beethoven and Eliot's versions of Coriolanus which is a wonderfully complex study. These three vignettes came to mind inspired by Eliot's 4 Quartets.He was of the opinion that poetry can be difficult and abstract almost obscure and this is what i did with these  metaphysical poems:

I take a fragile line
and break it apart-
the grains of sand  in which it had lain,
deconstructed, until wholly re - formed
becomes complete again.

Time was then, as it is
 now, unstable
irrelevant,
a structured backdrop
on which,only in intervals, are we
alive.

The pendulum swings back
redressing the balance of opposites, until
 beyond the noise,
 beyond the music,
 the unheard silence
becomes the truth.