Sorry about the dog, PB, even if it was years ago.
As for the poem, which is,of course, meant to be nonsensical,seems to express in its own way the feeling of the ephemerous presence of things and creatures one wants to stay with us, the tension between farewell and stay.
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Thanks, Danik. Yes, it is nonsense. If there is any tension between "Holy seafarer, farewell!" and "Go not!", it is oracular--by which I mean that's just the way the letters went together. But I did hesitate over the contradiction. The problem was that I really liked "Holy seafarer, farewell!". It seemed dignified and vaguely Homeric--so funny next to vernacular insults like "burnouts" and "finks". I don't know, maybe the narrator is bidding farewell to a worthy seafarer but telling the dumb ones who want go along with him not to bother. It's just nonsense in any case. Refrigerated gnus' tonsils indeed!
Last edited by Pompey Bum; 08-04-2019 at 07:11 PM.
Well , our postmodernity loves nonsense and hates to compromise, for what I know..So that's fine,
"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Missed this somehow on Saturday (I take Litnet off on Sundays for a personal Sabbath devotion). A wonderful homage for your dear departed dog. Delighted to see you embracing anagrammatic poetry... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagrammatic_poetry - keep them coming !
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
Last edited by tailor STATELY; 08-05-2019 at 12:12 PM. Reason: clarification
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Originally Posted by tailor STATELY
See, this is how rumors start! Thank you very kindly, tailor--but my poem has nothing to do with Conner. It's just a coincidental anagram--and pure nonsense besides.
There? Where?
Ta ! (short for tarradiddle),
tailor STATELY
tailor
who am I but a stitch in time
what if I were to bare my soul
would you see me origami
7-8-2015
Oh, sorry. I thought the Wikipedia article was a LitNet link. Okay, I'll post my anagram poetry wherever I want.
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