"Life is the dancer and you are the dance."
Eckhart Tolle

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

“Poem Starting with a Line from Norman Dubie.” napowrimo #13

In the near field an idle, stylish horse raised one leg

delicately,

to avoid the napalm ravaged earth

dropped a month ago, the stench still hung

the stylish horse was going blind

he had been worried he might be

when he had gambled as a pony, back in that card game in Tau Luachapore

and lost

it had seemed to him that he would lose his style

yet, here he stood, in the near field, a stylish horse with one

leg raised

as I watched bemused

scraping burnt earth into my dinner bowl

and ruminating on this sour existence

18 comments:

  1. Love the images and stories you conjure in your poetry. That is a great last line!!

    Well done, Pamela!

    ~Mark

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  2. i saw that line too and really like how you completed a whole other world of yr own... poem...

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  3. thanks for your poem Pam...well done...NY NY hu...spent some time there in late 50s and early 60s..lots of time in the Village..I think we might be taking a trip there next year

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  4. This drags my mind almost unwillingly into quite a few different directions. Really well done!

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  5. Poetry is great as therapy .Let it all hang out Pam. Good for you.

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  6. love it... it definitely went out with a bang!

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  7. Wow, great poem, Pamela! I think is definitely one of your best that I've read on here! I love the images, especially the line "scraping burnt earth into my dinner bowl." Good work!

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  8. Amazing, profound imagery, Pamela. You have a lovely way of telling a haunting tale. Very nicely done!
    Shari

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  9. Powerful stuff here! Scraping burnt earth into my dinner bowl...what an image!

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  10. Ha, excellent... great blend of humor and philosophy. I think the card game is my favorite part. ^_^ (The dinner bowl line rocks too.)

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  11. Pamela, you conjure up with great details.

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  12. pamela, this is so good - what you have done to Norman Dubie's line.

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  13. I thought about using this one, but you took it in a very different (and very cool) direction than I would have.

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  14. Powerful juxtaposition of images, Pamela! wow!

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  15. I really dig this one, Pamela. Thanks.

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  16. I love the image of the stylish horse and the glimpses of his days as a pony.

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  17. Eryl: Thanks so much!
    Mark: Thank you!
    omb: Thanks!
    Wayne: Thanks so much! Yay! the village is cooool!
    Jason: Gracias!
    Rall: I am letting it hang hon! Thanks.
    Susan: Thanks!
    Richelle: Thanks for the compliment!
    Shari: You're too kind!
    Robin: Thank you!
    Jseph: Thanks ;)
    Irene: Thanks for stopping by!
    Uma: Thank you!
    Francis: Did anybody use this line? I thought it was an interesting line. Thanks!
    Erin: Thanks!
    Jason: Cool ;)
    James: Glad you loved it!

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