ENNUI

“‘The only horrible thing in the world is ennui, Dorian. That is the one sin for which there is no forgiveness.’”

Mr. Oscar Wilde, from his gem,”The Picture Of Dorian Gray”

E N N U I

NO HOLDING BACK

Stoicism is a prison

Though I break out

Though I break down

Through the pull of a merciful act

Then I’m old and too weak to hold back

I can imagine a troubled

Panicicked angel tangled double;

One cat caught in a grate

A girl unfair in a wheelchair

Nears and dares her balance, her endurance, her tolerance

Strains all of her weight

Shows the pain that she’s used to on her face

Then relief, and they’re both free

She and the cat both refuse to

Cry more,

Like those that might see

“BAG” from Jim Harriison

Bag

BY JIM HARRISON  (From JH’s upcoming volume of poems, Dead Man’s Float (Copper Canyon Press, 2015).

I LOST MY MEDICINE BAG

from back when I believed

in magic. It’s made from a doe’s stomach

and holds grizzly teeth and claw,

stones from Tibet and the moon

the garden and the beach

where the baby’s ashes are buried.

LEG LIFTS JUST BEFORE THOSE SWIFT DOORS CLOSE; AN EXERCISE

The next step/ waiting maybe  too wrong

into  dark matter

An other thing/ a rung on a dark ladder

A nothing/

As it happens/ not to happen/

The next step/ leg stiff/ fixing to flex

to a leg lift/

I’m fixing to find/ A gift of intentions

To move me to move/

given/ attention enough

to move on/ away from the station

What Are You Reading Wednesday/ “Blood On Snow” by Jo Nesbo

What Are You Reading Wednesdays can be a game better than Solitaire.To participate, open your current read to page 34 and answer the three questions listed below. If you have a blog, feel free to leave a link down in the comments so that others can visit and see your post. If you don’t, just leave a note with your answers.

The Questions are:
1. What’s the name of your current read?

2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share at least one complete sentence.

3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

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My Answers this week are:

1.”Blood On Snow” by Norwegian author Jo Nesbo

2.””There, under the chandelier, her naked skin was so white that it seemed to be a single surface, no contours, just an impenetrable whiteness, like snow in the flat light of an overcast or foggy day.”

3. This is a hard-boiled pulp fiction, taking place within the violent organised drug & prostitution world of a major city in Scandinavia. Nope. This might be an OK realm to find some escape in, but not one to find a way to escape out.

EMPTY SPACES

Posted on June 14, 2014by chimerapoet

I am building empty spaces around myself

 self insulation 

 bubble wrap for the soul

to keep me from being noticed in a bad way

or a good way

or any way

anyway that causes the flushsweat spread in my face and a knot in my tongue

that a sailor would covet

I study this science of solitude

so that I may build empty spaces around myself

to drown out the clack and clatter of the rusted train my mind rides upon

armed only with a smile to empty a lions cage

I add one more layer

@jayetomas2014

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from:

https://chimerapoetry.wordpress.com/

Happy Birthday, Billy Butler Yeats

I bear a burden that might well try
Men that do all by rule,
And what can I
That am a wandering-witted fool
But pray to God that He ease
My great responsibilities?

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.from “Two Songs Of A Fool”, William Butler Yeats,1919

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What are you reading Wednesday (A Game better than solitaire?)– Jim Harrison’s “The Big Seven”

What Are You Reading Wednesdays can be a game better than Solitaire.To participate, open your current read to page 34 and answer the three questions listed below. If you have a blog, feel free to leave a link down in the comments so that others can visit and see your post. If you don’t, just leave a note with your answers.

The Questions are:
1. What’s the name of your current read?

2. Go to page 34 in your book or 34% in your eBook and share at least one complete sentence.

3. Would you like to live in the world that exists within your book? Why or why not?

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My Answers this week are:

1. “The Big Seven”  by Jim Harrison

2.”He reflected that in literature our lives were rivers which seemed inappropriate to him. Rivers were unstoppable, of great power. We were primarily creeks or rivulets that flowed into rivers. You could hope your life to be a smooth, clear, strong creek. You could make it so with care. Or you could muddy it up with carelessness. Sunderson had to put himself in the latter category but then nothing was stopping a change.”

3.A careless old man in the woods, just this side of change? Um, OK