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Peter Porter: A Sour Decade

by on May.24, 2010, under poetry

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These are the years which furnish no repentance

Though seamed with sore regret:

So much would selflessly be done and yet

Print no true sentence.


That grief sits down in books but is no writer

Must be the just rebuke,

And every lightless evening proves a fluke

The one grown brighter.


A careless management of things, they call it

Who pose for God or Fate

The purpose of the Infinite and Great

And here install it.


These decades, all the decimals of feeling,

Are pressing on our schemes.

On childhood walls, on corridors of dreams,

The paint is peeling.

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Peter Porter: Wittgenstein’s Dream

by on Apr.28, 2010, under poetry

Ludwig Wittgenstein

b.April 27, 1889

Photographed by Ben Richards in Swansea

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Wittgenstein’s Dream

Peter Porter

I had taken my boat out on the fiord,

I get so dreadfully morose at five,

I went in and put Nature on my hatstand

And considering the Sinking of the Eveninglands

And laughed at what translation may contrive

And worked at mathematics and was bored.

(….)

After dinner I read myself to sleep,

After which I dreamt the Eastern Front

After an exchange of howitzers,

The Angel of Death was taking what was hers,

The finger missed me but the guns still grunt

The syntax of the real, the rules they keep.

And then I woke in my own corner bed

And turned away and cried into the wall

And cursed the world which Mozart had to leave.

I heard a voice which told me not to grieve,

I heard myself. ‘Tell them’, I said to all,

‘I’ve had a wonderful life. I’m dead.’

…(more)

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Wittgenstein

rowing from Skjolden to his house

Ludwig Wittgenstein: A Biographical Sketch

via ::: wood s lot ::: “the fitful tracing of a portal”.

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