Legends great and legends small, great to few or maybe all,
live among us every day in their own time and their own way
sculpting life to fulfill their natural strength in nature’s will
to satisfy their present mind that often dwells where others find
a hollow nothing, an empty throne that can’t be built or bought or sold.
Legends grow and legends learn about themselves in daily turns
of silent battles in secret places, among deities of sacred spaces,
where lessons taught were then made learned, as sun and moon and tide all turned,
without acknowledgement of those who strive to meld their very souls
into an alchemy of life where from their works the wrongs are righted.
Legends grow and legends learn to do no harm and thus preserve
the sanctity of their own life among all those who daily strive
to make their way through every day in each their own small natural way
with their best efforts, without remorse, driven by life giving force,
to see their works become their view and see their efforts there renewed.
Robin Ouzman Hislop's poetry is certainly in dialogue with some of the key architects of the 'poetics of indeterminacy' – both the Modernist strands represented by the likes of Beckett and Stein, and the postmodernist strands represented, initially,
The songs and art in this book are about our collective emergence after the pandemic and trauma of the last few years - comprised of 5 collections: World as Refuge, Where We Live, In Our Hands, Rhythms of Change and What We See & Sow.
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