I have lost the fire.
Now I must push my luck back
up the stony hill.
Contraction
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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
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Prometheus, or Sisyphus, or something in between?
ReplyDeleteI just finished reading Neil Gaiman's American Gods, where the god identities slipped around quite a bit. But yes. I was listening to Dar Williams at the time and snatched some phrasing, added the mythology and there you go...
ReplyDeleteit is a frightening proposition to lose one's fire. if i lose mine, i hope the rest of the pyre slips away with it.
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