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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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Autistic Kid2 weeks ago
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chopping water and hauling wood2 months ago
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O6 years ago
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Bye for now7 years ago
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Your narcissistic flower8 years ago
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2009
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August
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- Feeling Normal
- Maybe I Should Stop This
- Messages
- With My Long Rodent Teeth
- Leonard Cohen Light
- Syncopated Truth
- Saving Myself
- Night and Day
- I Know My Worth
- Please Soften Me
- The Way He Did It, To Know Your Place
- Drinking New Wine, I Think Differently
- What Our Life Is, Double Vision
- The Street Tribe, The Way Out
- Deeper Than The Rest, Rain Gently Falls
- The Point Of It, What I Want
- The End Of The Affair, Alien Dreams
- Point Of View, You Have Broken Me
- This Is Not Right, Your New Magic
- Coyote, Reminder
- Modern Art, Grumpy People
- Clandestine Love, What Is Compassion
- Everything's Jake
- A Change Of Plans
- Another One Of Those Questions, Why Do I Do This
- Intermission
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August
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Rest and catch some ZZZZZZZZ's.
ReplyDelete{christopher}
ReplyDelete:>) Rest for those needing it....all of us perhaps. Enjoy the renewal
ReplyDeleteLinda
i'm guided by the beauty of our weapons....
ReplyDeletefirst we take manhattan
then we take berlin
Love to you Christopher. Hope you feel well rested soon
ReplyDeletexoxo