raring

Cherry

By celticman

Fri, 07 Nov 2014
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Why rara aves in the study of zoology?

Glorious Pere Aleatorius

Cast off the die

Bequest no fixed reason or why

No alee or nature shelter

Spinning  counter to the wheeling wind

Sharing the falling seed of the chancer

the beak of an alembic pointing in

Distilling desires in the prism of time

Resurrector of a shifting shared seediness

Chances high and low

Claustrophobic squalor and graduation

from rest

Staging posts in flight from life’s debts

Sipping the forest in full

Leaving behind lines of the past

Creation’s great art

Waiting for the earth to spin.

 

Certificate PG
Poem
Drama

Comments

Submitted by scratch on

'rara avis' if in Latin I think?  Excellent piece.  Seems like you can knock this out all day, wish I could.

 

Submitted by Shannan on

As per usual I lack knowledge and ability to understand and decipher another ABCtales poem. So can't comment intelligently. Often feel way out of my league and depth on this site ... oh well, congrats on being able to translate the academic intelligencia into a poem clever people like scratch will get ;-) Have a super weekend!

 

Submitted by celticman on

cheers scratch, just playing with words. Thanks Shannan, I wish I knew what it meant too. Often (more often than I'd like to admit) I've not got a clue whant a poem is and more often than that what it all means. I'm pretty good at deciphering prose though. I think we all, and espcially those on sites like ABC are trying to find our voice. We are all equal in that respect. I can't write like you. You can't write like Scratch. We bring different things (experiences) and styles to the party. 

Anyway, raring (as in raring to go)

rara alves (rare birds, we are all rare birds)

zoology (scientific study of beh, structure etc) Often when in  use proper names and classifications are in Latin. 

aleatorius (connatations of dice, which we play dice with, die, which are dice, but also the end 

Pere (French father, sometimes old man)

allee (shelter, usually in a boat)

almebic, (acutually makes me smile, it's one of those old distilling kits used to metamorphasise base metals into gold, it's got a kind of beaked kind of appearance)

The rest of it is pretty straightforward, but still muddled. 

 

Submitted by Shannan on

Thanks for the reassurance celticman. Touche that we are all wonderfully unique with something to contribute. Thank the Lord it isn't all mundance repetition!

I like this post-script idea, BIGGGG help!

Have a raring almebic-affected week :-) $

 

Submitted by jeand on

Hi CM

I very impressive poem, but I was glad that Shannan asked for help, so that I too could benefit from a lesson in writing.

Jean

Jean Day

Submitted by celticman on

can't remember much about it Jean, but thanks for bringing me back here.