View From The Northern Wall: I Would Do This

Thursday, December 20, 2012

I Would Do This

I Would Do This

If I was really
the magician I intend
I would weave such spells
that all around us
the fragrant vines of true love
would match my good work,
weaving shapes for us,
giving my youth back to me
and chasing your pain
so far far away
that you could not help but turn
and accept my life.
I would give my life.

July 8, 2010 7:39 PM

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christopherDecember 20, 2012 at 6:34 AM
Blogger's count of this blog has the page views at just over 200,100. Wish I had a nickel for each view.
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HarlequinDecember 20, 2012 at 9:02 PM
so grateful to be reading your work during times when words that carry feeling and meaning are needed more than ever.
thank you.
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The chicken crossed the road. That's poultry in motion.

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.

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I Would Do This

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