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The View From The Northern Wall
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.
About Me
- christopher
- Oregon City, Oregon
- 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
Over The Wall
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chopping water and hauling wood9 months ago
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O7 years ago
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Bye for now7 years ago
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Your narcissistic flower8 years ago
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- Look At The Looker, My Friend Nietzsche
- Needed Time
- Going Home, Like A Reed In Snow
- Not Yet Ready, If You Meet Him On The Road
- Biting Deep, The Shattered Glass
- Still More To Do, What I Fear
- Don't Know What It Is, Need To Know
- More Work, I Need A Rest
- Thief, Moonlight
- I've Arrived, Seeing Straight
- Clay Heart, Cold Words
- A Desert Moment, Perigee
- When The Angels Fall, Lucifer's Complaint
- Initiation, The Consequence Of Lies
- Holding Secret Words, The Last Moment
- Rapist's Lament, Go To The Light
- Life Story, Winning The War
- Shiny Things, Wrong Place, Wrong Time
- Message From The Editors
- Tricked Again, Stranded
- Time To Go, Finding My Way
- Fading Summer's Light, Lack Of Salt Is My Dilemma
- Parallels, Fishing
- Sea Stars, Hustler
- Going To The Top Of The Lighthouse, Spatial Orient...
- More Tea, Going First
- Follower's Lament, In My Wake
- The Rose, Pneumonia
- Arrogance, Almost An Epitaph
- I Did Not Reach Oz, The Other Side Of The Argument
- Melee, The Storm
- The Winds Get In, On The Loss Of Our Friend
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Hugs to you. Hope all is well.
ReplyDeleteHuggles
ReplyDeleteyou said something interesting about anger on Sunday and it made a poem almost pop out of me on Monday but it was only the start of a poem and i didn't finish it then....
ReplyDeleteanger was the death of me
tiny spark
nestled close
to heart's dry tinder
produced consummate fire
creating
naught but smoke
wafted acrid air
thru
bleached
burnt
bones
turnedonitself
to view
whatwasbecome
a ghost
It seems that many of us are slowing down after a winter of blogishness. We're finding that other things call us away -- whether something new and exciting or something that causes us to go off and heal. I hope yours is the first.
ReplyDelete{{{Ghost}}} Wow. Anger was the death of me...what a good poem.
ReplyDeleteKaren, Actually I confess to fighting off a cold and going to bed in lieu of blogging.
thanks Christopher...... play again soon
ReplyDeleteThanks Ghost, again. Bye.
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