Pleased to hear that my work has been published in the Field edition of the online arts magazine The Learned Pig…
In the darkest times let’s not forget…
“Nations are created by poets and artists”
Ananda Coomaraswamy
The Emigrants
“More and more, he said, he sensed that Nature itself was groaning and collapsing beneath the burden we placed upon it.”
W G Sebald The Emigrants 1993.
Finds
no art to this
no prizes
no surprises
spiders.
©robcullendecember2019
Coronation Day 2nd June 1953 by Rob Cullen
Earth is burning
Last verse of four verse poem
Etudes 4 (Après Arvo Part – Stabat Mater for Choir and String Orchestra)
Earth is burning
my heart is crying
Earth is in flames
and there are not enough tears
to put the flames out
Earth is burning
my heart breaks
Earth is burning
There are no tears left.
©robcullen2019
Jules Verne Zucchini
Men are walking on the moon today,
planting their footsteps as if they were
zucchini in a dead world
while over 3,000,000 people starve to death
every year on a living one.
Earth
July 20, 1969
Rommel Drives On Deep Into Egypt
Richard Brautigan.
Cae’r Blaidd or ‘field of the wolf’.
Cae’r Blaidd or ‘field of the wolf’.
The last wolf died in this place
but the hour of the wolf remains
and the wolves call for us, call for you
calling haunting us with their calling
calling for us over and over again
It is the time when we cross over
as some people say of the passing away
in the early hours when coldness
an imperceptible drop in temperature
loosens our will, loosens our grip on life
and the wolf crosses with us too
it has nowhere else to go after all.
A time we no longer speak of
the easing of souls young and old
the hour of the wolf remains taboo.
It is a way with our family at this time
that we sit in vigil, a candle burning
talk of remembrance, of memories
of life and the sadness of leaving.
But whatever we say the wolf remains
at the door until our time comes too.
And the wolf patiently waits for the hour,
waits at the door to call as it must do.
Published in The Learned Pig 2017
©robcullencelfypridd19
Poetry submissions
Very pleased to hear that two of my poems will be published in the Atlanta Poetry Review.