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Sunday, November 15, 2009

Poem

Thought I might share with you a poem I've written. Let me know what you think...

Adam's lament

When the wildcats roamed,
ferns canopied the stars,
heavy mist kissed naked
flesh, the mocking screams rang
hitting trees and changing course
in the dense forestation.

When predators stalked, the
beat of a thousand jeweled wings
cracked the custard air. Eyes
glittered in the swamp
and the gas stench
threatened to intoxicate.

When the apes stood to beat their chests
and bare their fangs, the steady
drip from sodden sky to leather leaf to fertile floor
drummed the pulse of death.

When hissing death
crackled through the dust,
when acid amphibians
bellowed, when electricity ripped
open a hole in the heavens
and showers daggered and drenched.
As prey became sustenance, the sound of bones
cracked and flesh ripped.
That's when I waited for you.


Helen Bouttell
November 2009

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Saturday, July 25, 2009

Latitude

Had a great time at Latitude festival last weekend, my first ever festival. The weather was mixed but I survived the whole camping lark. I did not however enjoy the toilets: pretty rank.

Here's a list of what/who I saw:
Music
Flashguns
The Mummers
The Brownies
Bishi
We Have Band
Little Boots
Doves
Grace Jones
Mika
Thom Yorke
Editors
Literary
Mark Steel
Luke Wright
Jackie Kay
Joe Hakim
Joe Duggan
David Van Cauter
Baba Brinkman
Comedy
John Gordillo
Dave Gorman
Theatre
English Touring Theatre and the young Vic: Been so Long

I really enjoyed the poetry tent where I spent the majority of Sunday. Jackie Kay was a highlight as she was entertaining, witty and talented. Thom Yorke was great as expected and unsigned band We Have Band were most enjoyable on the Lake Stage which was always worth pausing by.
All in all I had a great time and would love to go again. The only downside was the number of people there on the Saturday and Sunday when obviously people came on day tickets. Friday was pretty much perfect though.

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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Big Moon


How we love you,
Big Moon.
Your orbit is closer,
Dancing an oval path
In the sky.
You are close,
Almost enough to touch.

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Thursday, January 03, 2008

Scroobius Pip

I thought that this was pretty cool. Check out the MySpace page...


Letter from God to Man (Scroobius Pip)

Hey there.
How's it going?
Long
Time
No
See.
I know I haven't been around much but it didn't seem like you wanted me to be.

the last time I sent down a message, you nailed it to a cross.
So I figured I'd just leave you to it and be your own boss.

But I've been keeping an eye on you, I have. And it's amazing how you've grown.
All your technological advances and the problems you've overthrown.

All the beautiful art you've created with such grace and such finesse.
But I must admit there are a few things that, I'm afraid, Have impressed me less.

So I'm writing to apologise for all the horrors committed in my name.
Although it was never what I intended I feel I should take my share of the blame.

A lot of the good I tried to do was corrupted when organised religion got into full swing.
What I thought were quite clear messages were taken to unusual extremes.

My teachings were taken out of context to meet the agenda of others.
Interpretations were taken in many different ways and hidden meanings 'discovered.'

Religion became a tool for the weak to control the strong.
With all these new morals and ethics survival of the fittest was gone.

No longer could the biggest man simply take what ever he needed,
Because damnation was the price if certain rules were not heeded.

Some of the deeds committed in my name just make me wonder where I went wrong.
Back at the start when I 'created' all of this, the foundations seemed so strong.

See all the elements wee already here long before I began.
I just kind of put them all together. I didn't really think out a long term plan.

I made the sun an appropriate distance and laid the starts across the sky,
So you could navigate this globe or simply experience a sunrise.

I covered the earth with plants and fruits, some for sustenance and some for beauty.
And made the sun shine and clouds rain so that maintenance wasn't your duty.

I tried to give each creature its own attributes. But without making them enveloped.
I gave you all space to grow and, in your own way, space to develop.

I didn't know that such development would cause rifts and jealousy.
Cause you to war against each other and leave marks on this planet indelibly.

You see, I wasn't the creator, more the curator of nature.
And I want to set things straight with homosexuals right now; I DON'T hate ya.

I was a simple being that happened to be the first to yield such powers.
But I just laid the ground. It was you that built the towers.

It was you that invented bombs and fear that comes with them.
It was you that invented money, and corrupt economic systems.

You invented terms like 'just wars' and terms like 'friendly fire,'
And it was you that didn't know when to stop digging deeper and when to stop building higher.

It was you that exhausted the resources I carefully laid out on this earth,
And it was you that even saw these problems coming but accredited them little worth.

It was you that used my teachings for your own personal gain
And it was you that committed such tragedies, even if they were in my name.

So i apologise for any mistakes I made and for when my words were misconstrued,
But this apology is to Mother Nature because I created you.

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