Thursday 28 September 2017




inspired by the style of the lyrics of Antonio Carlos Jobim's English song lyrics to 'The  Waters of March
Hear me recite this poetry form on this YouTube link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HQIoeA2cMtM

Sunday 17 March 2013

vocable POETRY IS A SOUND

Go to this YOUTUBE link under the name ichthyschiro  or bianstrand to hear me read many recent poems aloud in (250+) clips .Here are the words thereto on the keynote clip thereon.The youtube link is
Also :Hear me recite poetry form on this YouTube link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HQIoeA2cMtM

A LABOUR OF LOVE

What intimacy is its cause,perhaps

an immaculate conception of words;

too swift to comprehend,see or

recognise.The moment is there

and then is not.Gone with the wind

the seed of idea remains, to

germinate and gestate,fanned by a

mental fragrance of elation.Slowly

self-transcending a word into a phrase,

a sentence to a strophe;a rhyme

rides a waterfall of cadence,

into a chasm of verse. Terse or

long, the sonnet becomes a little song,

struggles to arrive.Thrust forth upon

my page;a bastard-born of pain