Monday, March 17, 2014

Excerpt

Feast in the House of Simon, 1610, El Greco 

Let green wicker basket
a bottle of homemade wine
yields to thoughtful talk
not plupped yet  guests.

The fallen asleep city
misses untying the strips
of dusty centuries
with slick manners;
the mystery, locked                                           
in the tower of
hidden geometry.

A small apple of discord
hasn't been squeezed.
The light of beholder is cloaked.
All fuss  - later.
                        
Wordle 152 ~ a baker's dozen by Brenda Warren

18 comments:

  1. Light comes due, the fuss can wait or maybe not

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  2. Indeed he was certainly " a mystery locked in the tower of hidden geometry " ......great words

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  3. You seem to have bottled the atmosphere in that picture and given it to us in your words..very fine

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  4. Lovely! I'm impressed that you managed to tie the picture in with the wordle words.

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  5. I am totally going gaga over the second stanza... Hoa beautiful and thoughtful... Brilliant write.

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  6. that middle stanza...the geometry of the building...
    the city asleep...its quite good...smiles.

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  7. Enjoyed the image of the small apple of discord that was not squeezed. You really have written some fine lines from these wordle words.

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  8. I have always been impressed with El Greco for producing such fine experimental art 400 years before the rush in "untying the strips of dusky centuries".

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  9. All fuss later indeed, I like this poem a lot.

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  10. I love it all, but....WOW, that second stanza!

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  11. The fallen asleep city
    misses untying the strips
    of dusty centuries....ha i like... and there seems way too much hidden geometry in some places if you ask me...

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  12. Locked in the tower of hidden geometry...oh I like that...

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  13. All fuss later is a nice ending. Some fuss sooner and some fuss all the time. I thought this was well crafted.

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  14. luv it!!! mysterious and muddled; and true to form in its history

    much love...

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