Hello Jane, Sorry for the delayed response on your Well poem. I really liked the imagery. The disembodied heads somehow reminded me of that famous Raghu Rai image of Bhopal, where the father dusts back the earth to have one last look at his buried childâ¦
also the other one of the falling splash pulling the sky down into the well. It is almost like if you were doing a watercolor then the way you would take the color off the sky with a wash, and perhaps guide that fluid mass into another area of the picture plane. Actually the nature of reflection on a water surface is such that it offers endless possibilities. The very fact that what appeared as a seamlessly ârealâ surface can rupture and show up its âvirtualâ nature at the mere touch of a ripple⦠Cheers, Abhishek --- jane bhandari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 'Listening' reminded me of this poem I wrote about > four years ago. it combines childhood memories with > those of a later date. Oddly, children don't like it > much, perhaps because of its hint of something nasty > at the bottom of the well. > > Jane Bhandari > > > > DEEP WELL > > > > Deep well, fern-furred, > > Reflects the distant sky > > Like a silver salver. > > > > We children looking down > > Saw our several heads > > Black and sharply drawn, > > Arranged on the salver: > > A bloodless beheading. > > > > Someone dropped a stone, > > And Salome danced away > > And took our heads with her, > > Left the frightened sky > > Shivering in the green dark. > > > > Looking into a well > > With my small daughter, > > Thin branches laced the water: > > Our disembodied heads > > Caught up in their net > > Until a frog stone-skipped > > Across the bright water, made > > Overlapping rings instead, > > And the falling splash > > Pulled more sky > > Down into the well. > > > > And afterwards > > We heard the splash > > Climbing back up the well. > > > > > > Jane Bhandari > > > > For some reason this hasn't got to the main > zestpoets page...try again! > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > How much free photo storage do you get? Store your > holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos. Get > Yahoo! Photos __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> <font face=arial size=-1><a href="http://us.ard.yahoo.com/SIG=12hovu9td/M=362335.6886444.7839734.2575449/D=groups/S=1705020082:TM/Y=YAHOO/EXP=1124733331/A=2894362/R=0/SIG=138c78jl6/*http://www.networkforgood.org/topics/arts_culture/?source=YAHOO&cmpgn=GRP&RTP=http://groups.yahoo.com/";>What would our lives be like without music, dance, and theater?Donate or volunteer in the arts today at Network for Good</a>.</font> --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -- You are encouraged to post poetry, respond critically to the poems circulated and participate in discussions. To post, email your message to [email protected] OR post online at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/post/ Tell friends to subscribe to ZESTPoets by sending a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if they have a Yahoo! ID, by visiting http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/join/ ---theZESTcommunity-------------- [1] ZESTCurrent: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCurrent/ [2] ZESTEconomics: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTEconomics/ [3] ZESTGlobal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ [4] ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ [5] ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ [6] ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ [7] ZESTAlternative: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTAlternative/ [8] TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkZEST/ --- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
