hidden, I watched — the full moon gathered only for her
as October softened, she bathed, beauty
Drum beats
Sunrises
Dancing dusky clouds
In tune with blues
In leafy garden
To the hills of yearning
Never ending song
Sounds undying
Flowing rivers
Flying doves
Flowery forest
Primordial Eden
Your smile
Your eyes
Your silhouette
‘Till dawn
Covers the night
Moonlight
Crystal Sea
Reflections
Your beauty
From deep within
Your honesty
And simplicity
My heart’s felicity
Till I dream of you
Without fantasy
This heartstring
Melody
Harmony
Play intimately
W rite TELL
Fail
as an imagist
A POETIC WALK WITH MARIANNE MOORE
Come read and let my voice
take you along a
syntactical line
Better yet
if well met
listen, make
this a unique
‘as is moment’
‘twixt you & I
Line indentation
underlines the parallels
of my verse
The shape
my syllabic disposition,
the stanza
my unit of sense
in ‘sentence sounds’
surrounds
John Gould Fletcher an 'Amygist'
With Pulitzer Prize he did astound
sadly in a pond his body was found
an imagist she came to be
self-styling as 'H D'
a feminist with poetry did persist
Eliot's
waste
land
so
empty
now of
flowers
to
while
away
the
hours
Ricard Aldington
Sadly as his Imagism froze
he abandoned poetry for prose
TRIBUTE
each day a new beginning
a time to start anew
cherish the gifts of the earth
with stewardship lent to you
within the heart of life
we each, must make this choice
fear not your tenderness
listen to that inner voice
beyond bitterness beyond tumult
there lies a better place
world without end
with Him,living face to face
Copyright © Brian Strand | Year Posted 2007- composed from Soutar poem titles
Ekphrasis tribute to and inspired by imagist-F S Flint
musical rhythm of vers libre
in a sequence of concepts
&propositions
recording impressions
clothed in beauty.
instinct over thought
independent of form
cadence lyrical expressed
where emotions
are the driving force
in
harmonic flows
of nuanced length
&breadth
Wallace Stevens 1879-1955
with imagist-poetics once did strive
Enigma in his 'Valley Candle'
helped his poetry to sell well
Filling his verse with metaphor
Vers libre,not metre was the core,
He lit the fuse and walked away-
So little did his talent yield,for
He left his light on Flanders Field
Tribute to T E Hulme 1883-1917 initiator/catalyst of the Imagist form
I
picked up
this
pen
let it
loose
upon
my page
like
WCW
'just
to
say'
matter
of fact
so every
day
a
note
husband
to wife
can
become
so well
read
albeit
after
the poet's
dead
NOTE W C Williams
'Reply'(Flossie's answer to
'Just to Say')was
published in the Atlantic
Monthly Nov 1982
He began as an image theorist
with the genre never did not persist
A well travelled lass named Adelaide
Innovative and never staid,
Unmarried,single but no old maid-
A short life,latterly full of pain,
Her epitaph,the American cinquain.
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