Short Hamish Poems

Hamish Fulton-
                  conceptual 'text-images' as art...

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on the mantelpiece
sits Hamish the Highland Cow,
dreaming of mountains...

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His name was Mr Hamish MacTavish.
He was a Scot, and his taste was lavish.
Mr MacTavish wrote a posh cookery book
So all Cordon Bleu Chefs could try to cook,
A haggis!...

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M   A   Y
D   A    Y
D   E   W

M  A  Y
F   L  Y
D  A  Y

B   L   U   E
B   E   L   L
D   E   L   L
W   E   L   L


*fulton' is a unique shape form I so labelled after ' Seven days' one of the the works of Hamish Fulton (the Scottish artist) as a tribute to that artist .'fulton' is A square visual poem in letter 3x3 ,4x4,5x5,6x6 etc etc There of many examples thereof in my database here on PS...

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FULTON after Hamish, a space poem so 'squarish'
EMILY a paradox , not new ..after Dickinson's no 1732
KUHLMANN seven words of bliss, after Qurinus, sonneted LOVE KISS
DARYUSH Elizabeth's triplet you see! with syllables 6, 5, 3

You may hear me recite from my 4000 + PS anthology on youtube under my pen name ichthyschiro..

catch my short forms like these above @strandpoet on twitter..

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SHORT LIVED

MAY
FLY
DAY

Note: This visual poetic form (inspired by the work of the conceptual artist Hamish Fulton's (b 1946) landscape 'text-and-image' work 'a seven day walk in the mountains Switzerland early summer 1984'.
This poetic form has 5 words of 5 letters or 6 words of 6 letters (or even 3 as above) or 7words of 7 letters & so on with a pastoral theme.I call this form a FULTON as a tribute to Hamish and his art....

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