Just a quick one, to let whoever reads this blog know that I'm still alive
It's not much, but year 11 lit makes everything I've ever done in my life seem like not much
I don't even know what anyone could get out of this, but I just had to put something out!
Anyhow, I hope you enjoy.
And so he stood,
atop the tempest tost point of the highest mountain,
with no weight upon his once girded shoulders,
save for the flesh upon his bones
And so he looked,
with a stare so fierce that it pierced the collosal stones,
just as glowing metal would slide through the ear of a lamb
And so he saw,
with a gaze so wide that the arms of the earth were not big enough to hold it
And so he shouted,
With a voice so loud,
that thunder itself blocked its ears ,
and crumpled like a weeping child,
and that each and every bird and star,
trembled within the sky,
and began to sing songs of joy
And so he slept,
with a mind so clear,
with a heart so content,
that every infant seemed restless
And so he woke,
in the single bed he sat,
with no weight upon his small frame
save for the blanket that kept him warm
save for the dream which came to him every night
Perhaps you have read a poem by John Keats
ReplyDelete“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer” (1817):
"Much have I travell’d in the realms of gold,
And many goodly states and kingdoms seen;
Round many western islands have I been
Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold.
Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne;
Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold:
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies
When a new planet swims into his ken;
Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes
He star’d at the Pacific—and all his men
Look’d at each other with a wild surmise—
Silent, upon a peak in Darien."
It is as if you have created a return to an old view on high and gazed on the world with new eyes! Beautiful!
Just a note: You still need to change your date and time settings on your posts.
ReplyDeleteGo to Settings and click on Australian Eastern Time - Melbourne. All your blog posts will automatically adjust!