Poetry Contest

[Dry_Snail]

The Satan lured her
The Apple lured her
The Snake lured her

HE came back and saw us hiding,
HE found the Apocalypse absurd,
HE left us with a bane.

Now,

I stand here
I watch my posterity
I regret.

[mir]

? nice poem, but . . . it's not really about the picture . . .

[holograph]

I love Snail's. Mir, when a pic is posted I don't think the poem has to be about it per se. It should be inspired by the picture. Here is what I got out of it:



The writhing past is cast
in weathered bronze

the changeless tides still
foaming at her rigid sides

[an eerie coo of rabid waves]

Push and pull
Waste and swell

cord grass beats against her thighs
the ocher skin of monotone
a broken statue’s metal sighs

[only the merry go round and
round on time’s decapitated rim]

Push and pull
Waste and swell

the vestige of a moving limb

Time has no head to rest no face
her neck is an industrial fence

one foot just one precarious knee
held high above her severed waist

What do they pray to?

Push and pull
Push and pull

Agony drunk with agony

Take her.

[Dry_Snail]

Thanx MIR,
well the poem is not about the statue per se, but i interepreted the statue in this way.
I felt that the statue represents Adam and the way he is standing is the personification of that regret....well its all about perception i guess....


and thanx Holograph!!!

[mir]

okay! sorry i misinterpreted!

[Dry_Snail]

Mir, I think...you didnt Mis-Interprete
...i think You interpreted it Differently


ha ha ha

what say???

[mir]

so you think the statue's Eve?

heh misinterpreting things is fun . . . http://www.online-literature.com/for...=4389&page=243

[Dry_Snail]

NO.....again Misinterpretation he he he

i think its ADAM

[mir]

ACK!

*hides head in shirt*

sorry . . the "her"s confused me . . .

[Dry_Snail]

lol
well i guess things are clearer now a bit !!

[Virgil]

ii don't know if that's a female or a male, Virgil . . . but i'm leaning toward female because the name of the sculpture is Iris, Messenger of the Gods.

Well, that answers it.

[Orionsbelt]

As I circumscribe a circle through the zodiac with my toe
I know
I stand at the center and all else expands outward from here
I realize
This is the only place that I have experienced since birth
I suppose
Others stand in the their center with me toes out
We dance

[Petrarch's Love]

Interesting pic, Mir. I was just wondering if you know where the statue in the photo is now. I seem to remember seeing "Iris, Messenger of the Gods" in Paris, but I thought that version was headless, so I'm confused. Maybe there are two versions? Maybe I'm just imagining things and it's had a head all along? Incidently, I happen to know a bit of background as to the subject of this statue, and the highly suggestive way it was supposed to have been placed into a larger work, but I'm afraid that fact might spoil everyone's fiction. Do people want background material, or would you rather know about that only after the contest is over?

[Petrarch's Love]

According to Michelangelo
Statues are born, not made.
Their forms are waiting
In the hearts of marble blocks
And in the hot essence
Of liquid bronze.
They are waiting to be brought forth
From the passionate heat of fusing metals
Like infants into a crying world,
And to bestow on that world their beauty.

What then, of this aborted birth?
This monstrous, misshapen birth,
Lacking an arm, with a visage of half-melted skin,
Most of all, lacking the decency to emerge stillborn,
Lacking the decency to calm those flailing, living limbs
Which she presents open and willing
To the initiation
Of another birth.

[mir]

Interesting pic, Mir. I was just wondering if you know where the statue in the photo is now. I seem to remember seeing "Iris, Messenger of the Gods" in Paris, but I thought that version was headless, so I'm confused. Maybe there are two versions? Maybe I'm just imagining things and it's had a head all along? Incidently, I happen to know a bit of background as to the subject of this statue, and the highly suggestive way it was supposed to have been placed into a larger work, but I'm afraid that fact might spoil everyone's fiction. Do people want background material, or would you rather know about that only after the contest is over?

Petrarch, you're right, i beleive the statue's head originally is missing - i think i remember seeing it in the New York Metropolitan museum, with no head. but i also found this picture when i google imaged the statue, so what i'm guessing is that other casts were made of the figue, and one still has its head. i used that because i thought it would be easier to write poems on.

i'll go for background material - i'm not writing the poems, though

thanks for posting your poem! it's great!