WHAT PRICE THE PLOT

WHAT PRICE THE PLOT

OLD MAN SNEEZE
WEED-POINTS HIS NOSE
WHAT PRICE THE PLOT
THE BEE, HIS LOT
THE GUIDE, HIS POSE

©2014 stephanie pope mythopoetry.com#ohj May 14 guide, sneezeweed

LAMENTATIONS

At the place where Jesus was crucified there was a garden,
and in the garden, a new tomb, in which no one had ever been laid
and since the tomb was nearby, they laid Jesus. –John 19:41

There Was a Garden

A pun of purity, artistic matters and
the mastery of masters

You lie in bed
there, crucified

a matter of being mastered
(not exactly replicated)

a matter of a manner of
perspective

in conspectu
mortis

Look at the impact―the imp act!

a pun
of purity

Look at the reference
to soul's point of view

where no one has ever been
laid

here in the personal genius
the sweating Orpheus

more
blood, please

bring this
to life

chthon's sprites are undead
I-b®ow to the god in you rising

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