Monday, 25 July 2016

Wunderkind



wunderkind
him with his foot in his mouth
the expelled    youth

  killer in the rain

odour of chrysanthemums 
terra incognita 
the beast in the jungle 

  a breath of lucifer  

through the wall
the gifts of war 
the magic paint 

  lunar caustic

red rose 
white rose 
dear illusion 

  the colour out of space

children on their birthdays
the living daylights
the delicate prey
  
  flypaper

babylon revisited
the machine stops





A poem made from titles of works by Carson McCullers, Saul Bellow, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Conrad, Raymond Chandler, D H Lawrence, Henry James, Vladimir Nabokov, R K Narayan, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Margaret Drabble, Primo Levi, Malcolm Lowry, Eileen Chang, Kingsley Amis, H P Lovecraft, Truman Capote, Ian Fleming, Paul Bowles, Robert Musil, F Scott Fitzgerald, and E M Forster. 



2 comments:

  1. Very clever Gwil. I know the odour of chrysanthemums. Mr DH Lawrence me thinks? I love the virgin and gypsy film.

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  2. D H Lawrence, one of my favourite natural world poets, is correct.

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