Poetry in the Making – Ted Hughes

Because it is occasionally possible,
just for brief moments,
to find the words that will unlock the doors
of all those many mansions inside the head
and express something – perhaps not much,
just something –
of the crush of information
that presses in on us …

Words that will express something
of the deep complexity
that makes us precisely the way we are …

And when words can manage something of this,
and manage it in a moment of time,
and in that same moment make out of it
the vital signature of a human being
– not of an atom, or of a geometrical diagram,
or of a heap of lenses –

but a human being,
we call it poetry.

AND THANKS FOR THOSE WORDS, TED – I’M NO POET, SO I CALL IT ‘THE FUGITIVE STAG.’

A FEW DAYS AGO WAS 90 YEARS SINCE TED HUGHES WAS BORN (17.08.30). LOVE THE ‘THOUGHT FOX’ FROM 1957.

I imagine this midnight moment’s forest:
Something else is alive
Beside the clock’s loneliness
And this blank page where my fingers move.

Through the window I see no star:
Something more near
Though deeper within darkness
Is entering the loneliness:

Cold, delicately as the dark snow
A fox’s nose touches twig, leaf;
Two eyes serve a movement, that now
And again now, and now, and now

Sets neat prints into the snow
Between trees, and warily a lame
Shadow lags by stump and in hollow
Of a body that is bold to come

Across clearings, an eye,
A widening deepening greenness,
Brilliantly, concentratedly,
Coming about its own business

Till, with a sudden sharp hot stink of fox
It enters the dark hole of the head.
The window is starless still; the clock ticks,
The page is printed.

Ted Hughes – The Thought-Fox https://youtufRHRA via @YouTube .be/o41zjj

Two very different but both enjoyable series in their own way – with the added attraction that memories of our time/home in The Gironde, France, for a decade, kept ‘invading’ each episode! ‘THE LAST WAVE’ (BBC 4) also reminded us of our ‘last wave’ to No 21 France, as I called our ‘maison francaise’. Atgofion gwych.

We liked the characters and the not-to-over-the-top storyline and a satisfying denouement … as we say in Welsh! In addition, Annap not only speaks French and German, but lived in Germany (Tubingen) for a few years, and the added attraction in ‘BIOHACKERS’ (Netflix) of a series set in the beautiful university city of Freiberg, only 50 miles south west of Tubingen.

I know nothing about the comic book original format but loving the TV version on Netflix. Series 2 is even better than the first. Hoping that there will be a series 3. Delighted that my second born – DC (aka Donk, El Donko) in Sydney is also a huge fan … and Annap also getting hooked!

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