OTI:one poem and notes:8/2/17

Open To Interpretation

 

Wave Riders

I'm glad of it to see your skills displayed,

A wonder far beyond my own thunder,

These narrowed efforts I have shyly made.

So much wider a sky you glide over.

Beauty and Courage dancing up balanced,

While nearly submerged my thought my feeling

Appropriately clumsy, un-nuanced;

You mounted ride so smoothly galloping.

My craft stays shallow, with sluggish paddles

I endeavor to stay out of your way
Least we both flounder in these close battles;

I strive not ever to upturn your play.

Not to say that for some moments do I

So too rise up and bring ashore the sky.

DolphinWords

Notes:...some thunder and rain this afternoon...ate watermelon on the front step and watched...MidnightMovies...movieKingsmanSecretService2014...another movie length music video...songs unfamiliar to me, and just as well, as the scenes they accompanied I'd like to shake loose from me...so long as these films make the big bucks, the over the top depicted violence continues...and no point being repetitive repetitive pointing such out!...keep seeing previews of the new Kingsman, and thought to catch up...some of the scenes, like the slicing and dicing, and the fireworks exploding heads, are clearly inspired by the filters available to the digital animators...in the tvseriesElizabethI2005 the inspiration for horror is more old fashioned...the doings in Elizabethan dungeons and executions...which the animators have nothing on...oh, I made a random selection of Emily Dickinson--656...for someone who is said to have never seen the ocean...she knew the ocean!...some of 656 in Wave Riders...

quote

I started Early – Took my Dog –

And visited the Sea –

The Mermaids in the BasementBasement i.e., the bottom of the ocean

Came out to look at me –

And FrigatesFrigates fast and highly maneuverable warships of the 18th and 19th centuries, used to escort other larger ships, or to patrol the coast and blockade harbors – in the Upper Floor

Extended Hempen HandsHempen Hands strong, thick ropes made of hemp, used on ships –

Presuming Me to be a Mouse –

Aground – oponopon upon the Sands –

But no Man moved Me – till the Tide

Went past my simple Shoe –

And past my Apron – and my Belt

And past my BoddiceBoddice bodice; an upper part of a woman’s dress, or a rigid, laced corset worn underneath clothing, covering the upper part of a woman’s body – too –

And made as He would eat me up –

As wholly as a Dew

Opon a Dandelion's Sleeve –

And then – I started – too –

And He – He followed – close behind –

I felt His Silver Heel

Opon my Ancle – Then My Shoes

Would overflow with Pearl –

Until We met the Solid Town –

No One He seemed to know –

And bowing – with a Mighty look –

At me – The Sea withdrew –

 

Emily Dickinson

 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/50976/i-started-early-took-my-dog-656

 

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:)

 

DavidDavid