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running running

and gaia spake in howls and hell-noises.

and from her vaginal teeth did drop a shimmering homunculus,

falling stone cold dead-drop towards the fearful plains running running.

and as it hit the ground, the homunculus burnt the forests

and the hills and the rivers running blue.

and as it met a glistening foetus in the meadow of fruit,

the homunculus did gnash and gnaw and destroy the rivers running red.

and as it met the animals and the trees and the flowers of the land,

the homunculus did rape and raze and ejaculate

into the bleeding bodies of the garden running scared.

and as it spent its life and lie with the taste of foul

shit stink wafting through its swollen aorta,

the homunculus turned to gaia and forced itself upon her,

tearing dead flesh flora from lifeless fauna running running.

and gaia did weep and woe.

and the earth was full of blood.

 

◄ 22.3.16

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Stu Buck

Thu 24th Mar 2016 14:52

thanks laura!

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Laura Taylor

Thu 24th Mar 2016 13:55

Incredible piece of writing. So visceral.

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Stu Buck

Thu 24th Mar 2016 11:51

thanks cynthia. i somehow managed to miss your piece on mythology (it may have come at peak baby time) but i have read it now and find it fascinating. i have forwarded it to my wife, who will read it later i am promised. brilliantly, it appears to cover a subject (how can we learn from greek mythology) that she is covering in some depth herself this module. i shall report back!

and i agree about the need to clarify. peeling away the detritus leaves us with a pure form i think, which is why the haiku still thrives today. i received a wonderful book on basho for christmas, and found a further two in a charity shop detailing his travels. quite remarkable how much detail he packed into so few words. its not the brevity or the depth of meaning that gets me, its the way he plays with description, as if he is planting a seed that grows instantly and fills the brain with remarkable imagery. words to watercolours as it were.

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Cynthia Buell Thomas

Thu 24th Mar 2016 11:11

I enjoyed this very much. Interesting how we poets take whatever totally absorbs us in the moment, and we are almost compelled to reconstruct our impressions into poetry. Is it possible that we thrive on reducing the mighty ideas to the simplicity of a few lines - like a synopsis?

I do think that we crave clarity. Are we all innate teachers?

What did you wife think of 'Do not dismiss Mythology'? Any merit?

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Stu Buck

Thu 24th Mar 2016 09:49

thanks graham,
having a wife who is currently studying greek mythology, I was edging closer to Gaia the primordial deity here, but I do find Gaia theory fascinating and it could almost (almost) be applied to this I feel.
I'm glad its provoked some feelings, thats what I had hoped.

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Graham Sherwood

Thu 24th Mar 2016 00:00

The Gaia hypothesis, also known as Gaia theory or Gaia principle, proposes that organisms interact with their inorganic surroundings on Earth to form a synergistic self-regulating, complex system that helps to maintain and perpetuate the conditions for life on the planet.

Having seen how urban desolation is quickly reclaimed by nature (Gaia) this dystopian scene you paint so vividly would be a bit like foot-shooting Stu.

Shit, blood, rape and ejaculation are all simple organics and will eat themselves two-headed snake fashion.

A great canvas this one.

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Stu Buck

Wed 23rd Mar 2016 21:50

thanks both.

ray - someone mentioned the word earlier on something i was watching and i re-fell in love with it. it just rolls of the tongue!

harry - yes, i have a bit of a thing for taking mankinds treatment of the world and warping it into surreal/hallucinogenic scenes. i am always interested in other views on the current state of affairs and im glad i have provoked one.its global warming and everything really. im currently reading naked lunch so im in quite a negative mindset!

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Harry O'Neill

Wed 23rd Mar 2016 21:45

Stu,
This reads a bit homunculii causing global warming to me.

The gaia hypothesis is suspected by some scientists as
a way of trying to get back to metaphysics via physics.
(the idea that there is some sort of huge teleological plan
to the world...or that it is somehow self-regulating.)

Man (your homunculus?) is certainly the problem.

It is a fascinating theory, but as a Christian, convinced that we were all bunged out of some gaia-like garden of Eden
aeons ago, I don`t really regard our present domicile as
permanent anyway.

Mind - for someone who might - you have conjured up
a suitably horrific poetic kind of secular hell.

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raypool

Wed 23rd Mar 2016 20:24

The word homunculus is just fantastic and keeps on coming. A very powerful event throughout Stu. Hardly any descriptive stone is left unturned. A rip roarer if I may say!

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