Brainstorming about history, politics, literature, religion, and other topics from a 'gypsy' scholar on a wagon hitched to a star.
No, not that "Imagine." This one instead:
Imagine
This amber stone contains my soul.
When you warm it within the closed
cup of your palm, then turn it in
the sun, you see its shimmering
streak across a dusky sky like
fireflies on the summer night.
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 4:21 AM
4 comments
I am a retired professor. I last taught at Ewha Womans University, mostly composition, research writing, and cultural issues, but also the occasional graduate seminar on Gnosticism and Johannine theology and the occasional undergraduate course on European history. My doctorate is in history (U.C. Berkeley), with emphasis on religion and science. My thesis is on John's gospel and Gnosticism. I'm also an award-winning writer, and I recommend my novella, The Bottomless Bottle of Beer, to anyone interested. I'm originally from the Arkansas Ozarks, but my academic career -- funded through doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships (e.g., Fulbright, Naumann, Lady Davis) -- has taken me through Texas, California, Switzerland, Germany, Australia, and Israel and has landed me in Seoul, South Korea. I've also traveled to Mexico, visited much of Europe, including Moscow, and touched down briefly in a few East Asian countries. Hence: "Gypsy Scholar."
4 Comments:
Good to see that amber inspired more than Jurassic Park.
The irony is that the stone was not really amber but merely looked like amber. I think that it was some sort of yellow-colored crystal with micaceous particles or metalic slivers that caught the light and sent it shimmering.
At the time that I wrote the poem, I intended the "amber" to mean "amber-colored" ... but that doesn't matter anymore.
Jeffery Hodges
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I enjoyed that little one: both the post and the poem.
Nathan, I'm glad that you liked this little poem and post. I don't imagine that either made much impression on most folk.
Jeffery Hodges
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