Hi, Christopher. You left a lovely poem at my site, and I'm glad to be able to drop in and see yours. Beautiful work. It's very nice to meet you. I will enjoy looking at all of your work.
Some years ago my poetry took on a mythic flavor and I became a character in my own poems, a mage, "the man of the Northern Wall". This apellation is not completely fictional. My middle name is Noordwal, a Dutch term for north wall, though in current Dutch it mainly means north bank as in riverbank. I was told that an ancestor, a Portugese Jew escaping the Inquisition, settled in a small Dutch town and took this name from where he settled, near the north wall of the town. I have thought for a long time that -wal meant wall, think my mother told me that. A linguist might say that my usage is no longer common, is an older usage, but then the Inquisition happened in Portugal a few centuries ago, right around the time the Moors lost control of the Iberian Peninsula and the Jews lost the modest protection given them by Islam. Now I write as this mage, my poetry persona.
Mechanical designer for industry, now retired, once a Bay Area Hippie, went undercover in 1972, I've been writing poetry for years.
Contact: 3topper45@gmail.com
'Home' is strong in your poems isn't it?
ReplyDeleteThe 'Hospital Walls' one you left at mine succeeded in provoking me to tears more than anything else has lately.
I think I'm going to have to do some printouts of what you have here, to carry about and read at other times; I can't do them justice rushing through.
Lucy, thank you for visiting again. Your Tom in hospital brought back that period with my Annie, who has indeed passed on.
ReplyDeleteThat is of course what Hospital Halls is about. I wish you well.
Hi, Christopher. You left a lovely poem at my site, and I'm glad to be able to drop in and see yours. Beautiful work. It's very nice to meet you. I will enjoy looking at all of your work.
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