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The Wake
i.
A Funeral's Wake
You awaken dead in the other room
Hearing the murmur of voices
Changing to echoes that seem
So far but yet around the corner.
Your senses fade phantom,
Into walls sealed with the memories
Of their almost meaningless struggle,
As mirrors contain invisible perfumes,
To mix with us, where we linger still
For the portals to open upon the hill.
ii.
The Wake.
Chucked back sack dropped slack
ogre lumbers strapped with a broken
chimney stack top hat brimmed off
flip flap jacket Bric brac, kettles,
scuttles, cow bell clusters, toes out of shoe,
pantaloons wobbled girth of swaying reams,
streamers that seem to bear that enormous
frame as it booms across the plains , a skating
whirlwind of sonority, as if to dump it all,
disseminate into the emanations' multiple
hues wrapped in a pretty rainbow box
labelled to be opened on arrival later,
in a manner of speech, being off to
the land of no return but see
that mighty stride vast as
the plains, deltas & plateaux,
galumping in the distance on the wide
rim after the clanging, clattering
& dust of moths singing in the flames
iii.
London's Wake
Fall, fall again burning bridges down
Proud London but beneath your crown
This time wear the grimmest frown
To be written evermore 7/7 sent.
Not to reeve your mighty tolls
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,*
For even though Guy Faux fails
Before you open Guantanamo jails.
Fall to your tears fugitive for your children.
Have you not anyway been by man's
Hand made to arise again phoenix fashion
In the brimstone perfumes of your sacraments.
Plague, fire, blitz & now suicide bombing,
Blood sacrifice heralds in the New Millennium.
* Richard the Third. 1.1. WS.
Copyright Robin Ouzman Hislop 2005
All Rights Reserved
ROBIN OUZMAN HISLOP: Born UK. Childhood in Lyme Regis & Poole Dorset. Lived Scotland & Scandinavia, The East & Spain. A great deal of my life has been spent out of England, my mother's side is Scottish & I take the name Hislop, as writer's name from her family name. Bachelor in Arts (Hns). Philosophy & Religion. Manchester University. Resident at Pakistan, Lahore. Studies at Punjab University, New Campus, Lahore: Sufism (Tasawuf), Jalal-U-Din Rumi & Ibn Arabi. Sheffield University: Spanish & Latin American Cultural Studies. Resident in Spain from 1985 until December 1998 (Madrid and Salamanca): Resident at Salamanca, 1996-98: English Language teacher and translator for “El Ateneo”. Organisation of bilingual poetry readings at Casa do Brasil, Madrid Complutense University, Escuela Oficial de Idiomas, (Madrid Official School of Languages), Cafés Manuela and Magerit, O’Connors Pub, Madrid, El Ateneo and El Corrillo in Salamanca. Translations of poetry include 1927 Spanish Generation Poets: selections of F.G. Lorca, Luis Cernuda, Rafael Alberti, M. Altolaguirre, Miguel Hernandez and Vicente Aleixandre’s poems; and the Chilean poet Andres Fisher, Las Diosas Blancas an Anthology edited Ramon Buenaventura, an anthology of poetry Alchemy by Tessa Duncan from Spanish and James Stephens Fairy Stories into Spanish have been more recent activities. I hope to feature these, as well as introducing new translations with originals on my web page soon to be opened IBIS. I am interested in revivalist movements in modern poetry. Appeared in Dawn Millenium Anthology published by Kedco Studios & this year appeared in their Crystal Dawn Anthology. Frequently featured in the E zines Poetry Life and Times, Autumn Leaves, Sonnetto Poesia, Canadian Zen Haiku, appeared on Artvilla, Poetry Repairs, the Celtic Pagan Poetry Pages Journal, as featured poet in the Beltane edition & Ancient Dawn E zines amongst others. This year will publish own anthology Blue Corn which will incorporate performance, on web cam and voice recital with Kedco Studios. My present book After the Cave the Comet was published this month by Mystic East. Became a Resident Poet of Poetry Life & Times in January 2005. More of Robin's work can be found here:
Amparo Arróspide's Gift of Tongues: EXCLUSIVE NEWS UPDATE: Some of Robin's poems are due to appear in an anthology "Blue Corn", to be published by Kedco in 2005. 
Also Robin's exciting epic "After the Cave, the Comet" is now available for purchase either as a CD or Ebook at Mystic East.
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In memoriam London July 7 2005
English
Explosions
and carnage in London..
deathly silence where?
French
Explosions
et carnage à Londres... d'où
le silence meurtier ?
© by = par Richard Vallance 2005
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Richard Vallance's variation on Basho's haiku # 27
"Butterflies"
English
July's butterflies
flit in Saint James Park ...
bloodied tubes.
French
Les papillons
du parc Saint James en juillet
métro sang coulant.
© by = par Richard Vallance,
July 8 = le 8 juillet 2005
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Horrors, Horrors, Medusa Wails!
3 6 (2 3s) 7 9 (3 3s) 11 & 12 (4 3s)
all fair and square, our Prophecies
§28 Poets, according to the circumstances of the age and nation in
which they appeared were called in the earlier epochs of the world legislators
or prophets...
§29 For he not only beholds intensely the present as it is, and discovers
those laws according to which present things ought to be ordered,
but he beholds the future in the present, and his thoughts are the forms
of the flower and the fruit of latest time.
§30 Not that I assert poets to be prophets in the gross
sense of the word, or that they can fortell the form as surely as they foreknow
the spirit of events: such is the pretence of superstition which would make
poetry an attribute of prophecy, rather than prophecy an attribute of poetry.
§31 A Poet participates in the eternal, the infinite and the one; as far as r
elates to his conceptions of time and place and number are not.
Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1832), “Defence of Poetry” (1821)
Ergo humanitatis in memoriam tristem = Ainsi à la mémoire triste de l’humanité
7/7 21/7
The numbers add up. “We’re still on all those trains.”
9/11. 3/11. 7/7. 21/7. There’s no stopping them.
We squeal through our hollow Tubes, our brains
blown against glass and throats choaked with phlegm.
3/11
"We were all on that train." We were. We are.
We all live in Iraq. Allah, shit, we've paid for that.
Jerusalem: scores more killed, car by shattered car.
In Afghanistan, how many brains blown out, “Splat”?
9/11
The Towers, the martyrs’ paradise, THE place to die.
We were Rwandans starved, millions massacred.
Canadians on Air India ‘89 blown clear of Ireland’s sky.
Africa perishes of AIDS, Western aid deferred.
6/11
God! Vietnam we came, we saw, we lost. *
Hiroshima, we never knew what horror’d hit us.
Into Nazi kilns millions of souls were tossed,
But Hitler shrugged off Jews, "What's the fuss?"
12/11
Came the Great Depression, starvation loomed.
The Great War churned out trenches, pooled with blood.
The Russian Revolution? Stalin’s pogroms boomed.
The Boer War? - Volk were murdered, caked in mud.
3/11
The Civil War, God’s cause for deaths galore.
La Révolution française? Rich heads would roll.
The African slave trade cost a wee tad more.
Lord Cromwell's Reforms took their drumrolled toll.
9/11
The Reformation left all Europe battered.
His Vicar’s Inquisitions condemned Christ to death.
When the Black Death hit, how little lives mattered.
Crusaders massacred Moorish boors to the last breath.
6/11
When Rome collapsed, Mongols raped with lust.
Caligula killed citizens with random glee, at will.
Rome's Legions ground Jerusalem to dust.
All this is enough to make me puke. Are you faintly ill?
12/11
Seven seven twenty-one seven, Allah in Heaven,
for Christ’s sake, are we ever forgiven?
Three eleven, nine eleven, killers plan well.
Six-twelve eleven, our slippery road to hell?
© by Richard Vallance March 2004, revised July 2005
This an updated revision of my original poem published in
AUTUMN LEAVES ISSN 1547-156, Vol. 8 no. 3, May 2004 (Sondra Ball, ed.)
RICHARD VALLANCE was Born in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, March 11th., 1945. He holds an Honours B.A. and Master of Library Science, and is fluently bilingual in English and French. He also reads Spanish and Italian, ancient Greek and Latin well. He wrote his first major poem at the age of 18, in 1963. Richard has also distinguished himself in the field of library and information science. In 1983, he won the $1,000 Data Courier Award for Excellence in Online Published Papers.
Richard has composed over 2,500 poems. He is the Chairperson of the Ottawa Chapter of The Canadian Poetry Association, website = Canadian Poetry Association: Affiliation Ottawa Chapter. He is also a member of The Canadian Federation of Poets, where he is the Canadian Federation of Poets/ Featured Poet (January 2005). Richard judges and pre-selects all rhymed verse poetry for CFP's official journal, POETRY CANADA. Richard's world class poetry page is Poesie’s laissez-faire Faire Foire, which showcases over 40 poets worldwide. PLFFF features sonnets, haiku, contemporary and historical poetry. PLFFF is a member of Phenomenal Men of The Web: Arts & Humanities. Richard is the Editor of 2 Canadian poetry E-Zines, Canadian Zen Haiku canadien ISSN 1705-4508 and Poetry in Emotion = La Poésie à s'émouvoir ISSN 1705-4516, and is the editor of the sonnet journal in print, SONNETTO POESIA ISSN 1705-4508, to be listed in 2006 Poet's Market and distributed online by OpenMic.com. Creativity Pays (USA). Richard's poetry and sonnets frequently appear in such in print poetry journals as POETRY CANADA, POEMATA (Canadian Poetry Association), The Neovictorian/Cochlea (Madison, Wisc., USA) and The Nisqually Delta Review (USA). His CD-ROM book, Canadian Spirit Voices, Kedco Studios, Las Vegas, NV © 2003, ISBN 1-878431-44-7, some 500 pp. long, contains over 130 of his poems, almost 300 haiku, 32 translations of poetry in ancient Greek, Latin, Italian, German and French into English poems by the author, a novella, DENIZEN, and the 100 + pp. essay, "The Historical Evolution of the Sonnet". He is the Editor-in-Chief of the all-new multilingual international poetry anthology, The New Pleiades Anthology of Poetry = le Florilège de la nouvelle Pléiade, Kedco Studios, ISBN ISBN 1-878431-52-8 to be published in the summer of 2005. Finally, Richard is co-editor with Sondra Ball of the USA, of the North American poetry anthology, The Human Face = le Visage humain, Kedco Studios, ISBN ISBN 1-878431-52-X, to be published in 2006. Richard Vallance moderates 2 major poetry discussion groups, The New Pleiades Mirror and Canadian Zen Haiku canadien. CONTACT: Richard Vallance
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SEVEN/SEVEN Now cries the heat to fulfill the act. The flames cry out to obliterate. Here the hand, the eye, the mind, the pact Enchains circumstance into hate. What skewed intellect enjoins in tandem To fix fate, direct tragedy, I cannot fathom. To destroy in total random Does not satisfy reason nor proffer remedy. There is, in chaotic terror, I suppose, A tool to uncivilize, fracture community, Thereby serve horrid purpose to those That delight in pain, disrupting unity. But pain for pain, hate to hate, defies sense. Acts that deny recompense, reward To anyone, aborting chance to commence A time of decency, beneficence restored. Something, now, has expunged essentials. Paranoiac demons roam the street. Opened, Pandora’s box has consequentials. Cry panic. World insanity is complete. WARNING Two thousand years ago a star appeared To promise love, to promise peace. To calm the world that what it feared Of death and cruelty would cease. It lied Sixty years ago mankind contrived An artificial star to end a war. It shined mightily. Very few survived It’s glare. This star, as the one before Implied The world now would be safe, secure From further conflict, homicidal hate. Happiness and peace would be sure But there’s nothing more slippery than fate. The seeds of galaxies of death Now store in nations’ secret places. Weapons from the ordinance of Seth Now lurk, await, in rocket cases. Beware of stars. SUPER THOUGHTS The comic book has made it to the screen en masse To satisfy the literary tastes Of the unliterary class. We are informed as to how The flying fighting jumping men Masked and hooded and universally attired In colored capes and tights, Equipped with lumpy torsos, acumen To perceive whatever might be required To defend our liberty and human rights, Have come to be. We are entertained to see Their unfortunate psychology. How tragedy propelled Each superficial super guy Out of an ordinary destiny Into adventure, shapely gals, Fame and admiration and anonymity. Considering, for each of us, How life can make a nasty fuss, It seems to me Surprisingly How empty the skies can be Of costumed men leaping, popping, Up and down, hopping Like the mythic manic copasetic human flea. © Jan Sand, July 2005JAN SAND is a poet and illustrator from New York (now residing in Helsinki), is a regular contributor to Poetry Life & Times and the newsgroup alt.arts.poetry.comments. A great deal of his work is about animals, or science fiction. Recently Jan was published by Kedco Studios Artist Profile Press, on their latest CD ROM e-book, "A Way With Words (Poetry Real and Surreal), which also includes complete books by Dale Houstman, Sara L. Russell and Keith Gabriel Hendricks. Jan's illustrated book on the CD is called "Wild Figments And Odd Conjectures", which is also sold separately, in a limited-edition "single" CD. To see an illustrated article about Jan's poems, visit the November '98 issue of Poetry Life & Times, and scroll down past the Editor's Letter. He also has his own poetry pages on Charlotte's Web at Artvilla. Back to top
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Sara L. Russell (Editor)
Won Internet Arts Award from Kedco Studios Artist Profile Press. Runner-up in Capricorn International Love Poetry competition 1998. Her website Poetry Life & Times recently won the Alpha Poets' Poetic Eyes web award. Won Poet of the Week in the Poetry For Thought group (The Globe groups) for the week April 28-May 4th, 2001, with the poem "If You Were Mine". Inducted into The Poets' Hall of Fame, 2001, and included in its anthology for that year. Recently broke several bones after falling from a train; now fully recovered after almost a year, and walking without a limp following a recent successful hip operation.
5 illustrated e-books published by Kedco Studios Artist Profile Press (most recent first):
Worlds Inside The Head, Quickies, Spiders And Gliders, A Way With Words (in collaboration with four other poets) and Pinky's Little Book of Shadows.
Also published in several Kedco e-book anthologies and Forward Press bound book anthologies.
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