From Tethys Late Groom Poem by Tailor Bell
From Tethys Late Groom
Beyond my upper deck
Before the open bay
Large houses line wide canals
Persistent molars of a near edentulous jaw
And there in swallowing darkness a glowing
Fishlight underwater
Lies left off the dock
Of the distant enamelled dwelling, circling
About in silence in my eyes
Fixed upon a pale green pelican
Searching for his dinner, a late arriver
In this Iapetus Ocean remnant
Enveloped in black sky warmly broken
Rounding pensively staring into
Soupy light where fat mullet stray
To the right glowing ember coals I see
Churning engine cones ignited
Throttles boosting white hot
Jet tangos and call sign egos
Slipping forth in silent air
On the horizon ahead well spaced pews
Tall energy lamps turn darkness
Faint ugly blue, just the horizon, though
Despite my gifts, they would not forgive
My betrayal at this strange juncture
He veers slowly about as I search
Dilated pupils and wide open eyes
A hiding mate, screeches aloud
Cenozoic cry for food fragments
The night and catches me
Were any man or woman to survive
Such an oblique arrival into antiquity
To face such creatures
Unarmed, with bare hands, I raise up
Keeping away from the light
Turbines subduct below ground
Thumping mullet nudge my neck
In this Area, the wind dies down with evolution
Son of Archaeopteryx scans the chop
Visibility poor, he paddles in slow
Clearances pulse to steeple top, cracking out
Pelican green, Pelican go
TAILOR..... u WerENt KiDDiNG, wave after wave PoUnDinG On ThE DooR bY The wAvE..Mr BELL... i luvz it.......... a worthwile wait indeed... even better when i broke out the dictionary... :)
Tailor, you never cease to amaze me, your use of the English vocabulary is absolutely amazing. The imagry painted here is fantastic, an artiste at work. --Melvina--
There is lots of great imagery in this one tailor, smoothe flowing, wonderful vocabulary Love duncan X
Utterly magnificent concatenation of images leading us into that barbaric ancient world and back out to Pelican green, Pelican go! Or are those worlds so close together that they shade into each other if we just look closely enough? Such a realistic creation from the world of your remarkable imagination! !
Fine poetic imagery at it's best...Well done, a deff 10 from me Hugs Nickie x x
Fantastic work Taylor, one of your best! Amazing, outstanding imagery!
O what luscious metaphoric language! A focussed eye on the natural element as you sketch realms between the tenor and the vehicle of these metaphors, yet evoking extravagant eloquence merely to brutalise it by reducing it down to size for further evaluation. Such reduction of magnificience in modern times (while alluding to the past) , elicits perhaps an academic snicker or a chuckle, as much as expresses several insights. GWG
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
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Tailor>>>POWERFULLY EXPRESSED TALE OF HARROW....STELLAR IMAGEWORK, AND APROPOS LANGUAGE WELL EMPLOYED HERE...fINE CRAFTWORK, TAILOR'''''''''''''''''f''''''''''''''''''''''F. j. R.