Pythian Games

Poet Hunting

Posted in Neruda Poetry Challenge by imogen88 on May 15th, 2008

If poetry found Neruda,

was he looking,

or did it sneak up on him

unawares?

Beautiful words,

images in the mind,

great works

speaking through Allende.

Poignant film,

Il Postino,

poet hunting,

searching for

a voice.

Does poetry hide in the

clouds, building up like rain,

hunting the earth for fertility,

then bursting forth?

Like words on a page,

posted in a postbox,

sent, or sending?

Maybe this is so?

Writing Prompt - Heather Blakey’s Neruda Challenge on Squidoo

(copyright Imogen Crest 2008.)

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Brenda Clipstone - Lemurian Portrait

Posted in Portraiture by imogen88 on April 16th, 2008

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At Riversleigh Manor there are many diversions. Brenda Clipstone offers martial arts and training with Chi in the gardens most days. Take your time to enjoy working with her. It will enhance your feeling of well being.

(The real, secret story of Brenda,

formidable martial arts instructor,

Riversleigh Gardens in black pants, rainbow hair and top,

cuts to the chase, with karate chops,

with thoughts of he who did her wrong.

Brenda has a broken heart, from he who done

her wrong.)

Here is Brenda’s private song

sung to her by the musical sprite

chorus in the Murmuring Woods,

where she often walks,

like Artemis:

“She tried to get the love,
tried to get the love -
tried -to - get - the - love,

from a hard man,
grown man,
lone man,
stone man.

But she didn’t get the love,
didn’t get the love -
didn’t - get - the - love,

now she’s a hard woman,
grown woman,
lone woman,
stone woman.

(Grown woman,
home woman,
wise woman,)”

(copyright Imogen Crest 2008.)

(image copyright Heather Blakey 2008.)

(Song originally came from Lemurian Abbey Archives, July 2005.)

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Lemurian Portrait - Ebony Wilder

Posted in Portraiture by imogen88 on April 6th, 2008

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“Ebony Wilder,
Riversleigh housekeeper,
silver-y hair, blue hat,
 shells green peas,
with tea and sympathy,
orange frock,
and blue trim. 
Dreamy voice,
spinning tales,
stories emerge -
peas from the shell.
Ebony Wilder,
dropping surprised peas,
red ceramic bowl in her lap.
Green peas,
high seas,
sailor songs
of trea-che-ry,
china laden
wooden shelves, popping peas,
telling
tales of high seas.”

(Lemurian Portrait - copyright Imogen Crest 2008.)

(Ebony Wilder, the Ms Marple style housekeeper of the Lemurian Abbey and Riversleigh Manor, is mild mannered by day. But you do need to know that Ebony has long associations with a smuggling ring and had connections to dubious seafaring types from China who purport to have bottled the Elixir of Creativity. Ebony is none other than the notorious Captain Ebony Wilder, whose exquisite mind and swashbuckling style was the talk of the Lemurian Seas, created by Heather Blakey, copyright image 2008.)

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