Why do we take still/
photographs of wise people/
who speak living words?
Posts Tagged ‘Video’
Loon Calls The Sunset Goodbye: Revolutionary ImproVerse Free Verse Poem
April 13, 2016My video camera ran,/
dancing with the lake’s waves/
and the sky’s reflections.
My fingers froze,
trying to hold lens steady,
silently breathing.
I’ve learned to be quiet,
to live with the pain
of stillness.
It was all worth it
to hear a lone loon
call the sunset goodbye.
My Memory, No Video, Remembers: Revolutionary IMprov Free Verse Poetry
January 7, 2015He saw
a desert picture,
Mojave,
her costume,
her children,
the stage,
and remembered.
Somewhere,
in Ecotopia?
there is video
proof:
A costume’d man,
Teenage
Mutant
Ninja Turtle
(popular the first time around)
standing on a balcony
stage,
as soft light
through the patio window
breaks.
He’s surrounded by
young ballerinas,
Merry Misses,
missing the raindrops
and the mist,
laughing,
skipping,
she directing.
Were there tissues
and cloth
and streamers?
Moving,
Swirling,
Dancing
around him,
(old yet young,
giggling)
chanting:
“excellent.
Excellent!
EXCELLENT!”
It was her first
video choreograph.
It was finished,
parked,
and lost.
He never saw it,
that videoed memory,
most excellent,
but in his mind,
he can recall
those better,
more pure
days,
and dances.
Even without
the video,
taped,
and the paper mache’
green and purple,
long since crushed
and lost
turtle head.
Seeing hats of green,
he remembers.
She
has not strayed.
Her art
reminds him
to be
mutant
excellent.
Dreidel Turnip Goy Toy at Seattle Art Museum: A SAM Revolutionary Haiku and Video
August 20, 2009
Dredyl top spinning.
Bent turnip or phallic root,
Twisting as Goys do
For more information on From Art Criticism to Poetry in Five Strokes, visit A.K. “Mimi” Allin’s blog at http://thepoetessatgreenlake.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-art-criticism-to-poetry-in-five.html
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