Poetry Break: "Entscheide"
Knife & Sheath
Unsheathed
(Image: Mockingbird Hill)
From a time in Europe before I met my Sun-Ae on that slow train through Germany, I had a few close encounters of the disappointing sort, and one of them inspired this good-bye poem:
Those days of good-byes are long foreby, and good bye to them . . . but I still rather like this poem of regretful longing.And now, you're shied away from me...Entscheidemy wild dear...slipping into shadows' false freedom,a lost kingdom of plants,And a subjunctive blue mood lowers
thick, tangled vines of the past,
the wood of would've been....like the folds'cause you're shied away,of a deepcovering this decision....blackdress,melting in purple shadows,my dear,wilddear....
Labels: Poetry
posted by Horace Jeffery Hodges @ 5:56 AM
7 comments
7 Comments:
Jeff,
do other cultures say "shied" or is that part of the Ozarkian upbringing?
Jeanie
I've never thought about that. I'd assumed that it was standard English.
Jeffery Hodges
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I've finally figured out why you call them "Poetry Breaks"--you are trying to break us with your poetry!
I keed, I keed!
As for "shied," I'm going to guess that it is standard English. We used it in the Northeast when I was growing up--and the suburbs of New York are probably the furthest you can get from Ozarkian dialect.
Whatever its geographical extent, the term "shied" in my poem is also a pun on the "Sheide" in "entscheide."
Jeffery Hodges
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hey,gypsy scholar,may i have the honor to contact you through your email address.if you can tell me your email address,i would aprreciate it that much.
here is my address,carrisasheng@hotmail.com
Carrisa Sheng (if that's your name), my email would be readily found by Googling my name, but I can also contact you.
The blog persona "Gypsy Scholar," however, is a far more interesting person than I.
Jeffery Hodges
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