Visual Poetry & Spoken Word
A series of Artist-written hybrid visual poetry works exploring the confluence of the visual, linguistic, sonic, & digital. Interactive in enagagement, the poetry forms of cento, anaphora, acrostic, and free-form phonaesthetics are employed within the current body of work. ( See also Video & Moving Image ).
Visual Poetry Mixed-Media Assemblages - 1130mmL x 170mmW
The Realm of The Less (A Cento)
sea-mews sea-mews
a dusk pulse shade without colour traversing skies shape without form
a dusk pulse traversing skies shape without form
murmurs ascent land laid
shade without colour murmurs ascent land laid grown sheer
pale grown sheer
shape without form murmurs ascent pale sea-mews eyes meet eyes meet
a dusk pulse a creature made a creature made
forever less
forever less
Of Nature
lost
cut off
hidden
trapped
bought
burnt
torn
mute
Forest Aflame
affinities
born
derived
beauty
attested
abstract
firmament's
afflicted
colour
shadowed
memory
foretold
Memoria
Sorrow standing dark /
In rooted rhythm's measure /
Circle, sound, and eye, remark /
A votive veil descending /
To stipple the opened earth
Before A Truth
before a cloud became a stream
before a river became a sea
before a wave became a sound
before a song became unsung
before a voice became unheard
before a stone became a mark
before a truth became untold
In Deserted Time
We depart lost lands with dubious promise /
following primitive instincts, mythic rite
a plaintive presage of deception,
of turbulent episode, seen in series /
those heralds heard, in so far denied
give urgency upon a signal, to cease
repeated verses of echoed duress /
dwelling in deserted time.
This Dark Water
Shadows arrive /
Splendour cedes /
To a fire above /
Upon this dark water /
Shadows remain /
Subject To Revision
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