GUEST BLOG...POETRY! FROM POET TO WANDERER "FAME" by Dennis Patrick Slattery

FAME
  ~For Basho

I know that fame will be within reach

when someone begins to call me

by the name of an exotic tree

or a boll weevil recently unearthed

or perhaps an emotion long thought

extinct but erupting now, around

the world, surprising us all.

But what I wish to call you,

beginning this weekend,

is the sound of something

tearing slowly in half there,

where the forest is darkest

where the wind cannot penetrate.

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notes

1. photographic reproduction of Basho from a woodcut from 'One Hundred Aspects of the Moon,'  by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, 1885-1892.

2. For more on Basho’s life visit https://allpoetry.com/Matsuo-Basho  

APRIL POETRY

APRIL WINDOW

To write hokku one should live in a house which either has a leaky roof or one with the potential of leaking. ~R.H. Blyth

WINDOW IN THE ROOF OVERHEAD
EYE HOLE JUST ABOVE A BRIDAL BED

WHERE THE ROOF LEAKS IN
THE GODHEAD CRYSTALLINE


©2014 “April Window” stephaniepope mythopoetry.com


notes
Micropoetry:  #poetheme  #window #mythopoetics

Basho wrote: A spring rain/a roof leak trickles/down the wasps' nest . (R.H. Blyth, trans.)

"Poetry is a perfumed wasp, a feathered ladder." -Brian Landis, Feathered Ladder (Fisher King Press, 2014), p. 112. see also  pp. 116-117 for the dual nature of the wasp to transgress mythic boundaries through narrative metalepsis revealing a hidden dialog going on between a world in which one tells and a world of which one tells; truly a wind's eye or wind's hole or window metaphor at work.

image credit: original painting, 1892 by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, “in Bed-The Kiss”
http://www.wikipaintings.org/en/henri-de-toulouse-lautrec/in-bed-the-kiss-1892
Overlays applied to original image and then set into both round and rounded corner frames by stephanie pope image reproduction ©2014 mythopoetry.com