The Turtle House

Monday 6 September 2010

Here's another of my poems from about a week ago: Wolf Poem

Wolf Poem

I went to see the Wolf today

and he was sleeping, all away.

I asked if I could be so free

and he yawned beneath the cooling tree

"Oh that's not up to me."

John Fitzpatrick, Soi Sam, Mooh Baahn Pop Suhk, Pak Kret, Kingdom of Thailand. Copyright 2010.

here's my poem about "The Escape Cage" It's copyright 2009

The Escape Cage

He wanted what he wanted til he got it
then didnt want it
so he could
want it again
when it was gone.
Oh my dears, the tears, the fears, the years.
Each escape became a cage to escape
and then one day
when he was old enough to know
he could know himself no older
he bent the cage into a bicycle
and rode it all the way to China
ringing the bell he made for you.

John Fitzpatrick 2009 Krung Thep Mahanakorn Kingdom of Thailand

Yukio Mishima- Thirst for Love

This is a lovely book. Mishima's talent in clear plain story telling is very refreshing 50 years on. Then there are such surprise additions into the flow: big ideas, deep ideas, the human condition...in just a few lines, and then the story gently continues.An example: "A feeling of liberation should contain a bracing feeling of negation, in which liberation is not negated. In the moment a captive lion steps out of his cage, he possesses a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds to him-the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage."