Rienzi Crusz, brown in snowfall
Douglas Blair 1951 (London)
Legacy
For Anne
"This is all there is and this is everything" - JOYCE CAROL OATES
Take my poems--
I have nothing else of value to give you.
fruits
of lonely nights, faithful candles
that flamed and sputtered until
my metaphors were right.
Take my poems--
my kingdom of fears in harness,
days of silence
when my neighbouring world
danced its tumultuous jig
and laughed.
Take my poems--
they were born with a brown skin,
sang with a brown voice,
danced a brown jig, preserved,
until the cold white paper
took in my words with the music
and fatted calf of the prodigal story.
Take my poems--
my umber heart my umber words,
the forgotten pain, the remembered music,
the new landscape,
why I thought God was a poem,
the poem, the only cosmic poet.
Take my poems--
mostly, because I love you,
they are the bloodstones
of my youth, fading footsteps of age,
small bouquets
that may, perhaps, survive a little while
like a memory.
Nothing else comes to mind--
the house is only wood and cabook,
the money is paper.
About this poem
Remembering our provocative/jesting Waterloo poet. Nurtured in steamy Sri Lanka. Translated to snowy Ontario. Rienzi’s piece, not Doug’s
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Written on April 15, 2013
Submitted by dougb.72572 on February 01, 2023
Modified by dougb.72572 on February 03, 2023
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Closest metre | Iambic trimeter |
Characters | 1,014 |
Words | 208 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 6, 6, 7, 6, 7, 3 |
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