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Books
· Rhythms of Existence

· Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems

· TESSERAE

· Next Arrivals

· Cartoon Molecules

· Key of Mist

· All the Babble of the Souk


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· Bay


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· Interview with Mystic East Publishing

· Interview with Poetry Life & Times. August 2001

· Margret Atwood in the Heart of Darkness


Poetry
· Wave. A Video Poem

· Passage (excerpt from All the Babble of the Souk)

· Far from Equilibrium

· Dream of Uroborous

· Along it Came.

· A Question of Time

· A Witch for Halloween

· Tales of the Senderos

· The Way of All Shadows

· Laminations in Lacquer

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Modes Of Mystery 3.)

by Robin Ouzman Hislop — Read all 170 poems by Robin Ouzman Hislop

3.) i - xiii.

Sunday, November 16, 2003


i.

Skyward bound
the shadow from the bird,
here mine remains grounded.

ii.

Tea - heat water to
just before fish eyes pop - still
- to set free, slow pour.

iii.

Slightly baked black
thick pig iron is good,
it now depends on the tea.

iv.*

We have left the bones
to the scholars & taken
the cream for ourselves.

* imputed to Rumi.

v.

Age teaches me were
had & we are being had,
i take up my pen.

vi.

Ninty per cent water -
Chimpanzee, ninty three per
cent, the rest habit.

vii.
Apocalyptic:
water & oil shortage, plague
deluge, erruption.

viii.

Without , the comet
returns not with a bug
but a dinosaur.

ix.

Elephants & toads,
kangeroos, rabbits, cats &
rats out of sewers.

x.

Love you have returned, lo
to chastise me, I was happy
here, until you came.

xi.

I´ll sing the song of
the pied piper, my children
shall not be soldiers

xii.

When I last wrote
a sonnet, I had a bee
in my bonnet.

xiii.*

We three know now a
closer now than before,
after the translation.

*To Amparo & Andrés.

Copyright Robin Ouzman Hislop 2002
All rights reserved. Modes of Mystery 3.)



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Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on November 17, 2003
A fascinating write that required me to read it more than once. Thank you for this offering. Regis

Reviewed by KJ McPhee
Reviewed on November 17, 2003
a learned mystical elliptical poem... joe

Reviewed by Bonita Quesinberry
Reviewed on November 17, 2003
Very interesting, Robin: forces one to focus clearly or miss the point entirely. Well written. ~~Bonnie Q

Reviewed by Oirdheirc Mor (Reader)
Reviewed on November 17, 2003
Hi Robin,
This is a real cracker, though I can be a real pain in the arse at times.
I being one of those people that tend to look and see on occasion’s subject matter from a slightly different perspective.
When one observes a lion sauntering past dressed in spots, one instinctively says Ah! Simba has been with Marozi (Only ever seen one, and that was dead)
I have only had time for a quick glance at this.
The phraseology is interesting though, Pig Iron only becomes such after it is poured in to the pig, the pig being of course the mould the molten iron is poured into.
And is normally of a dark grey colouring depending on the additives to the ore designed to remove impurities.
The charnel house of academia, one could root amongst the pedant bones at leisure, whilst sipping the perfect cuppa, your right enough about the fish eyes infusion depends upon it.
The Arab’s make great tea but they only ever use the very tip from the leaf, and always seemed to be at its best made in the traditional milk tin, over a camel chip fire, their lemon tea is wonderful.
I am desperate for time, but I must come back to read again, this is good stuff.
Catch you later.

Oirdheirc Mor

Reviewed by La Belle Rouge (Reader)
Reviewed on November 17, 2003
I am finding this fascinating, so many deep thoughts expressed simply and profoundly!!

Reviewed by Bhuwan Thapaliya
Reviewed on November 17, 2003
Robin....deep deep write!!!!!

Reviewed by ***** ********* (Reader)
Reviewed on November 16, 2003
Endlessly interesting and full of deep questions posed most interestingly, full of poetic paradoxes and sparking ideas... keep it going! Exceptional!

Reviewed by Kate Clifford (Reader)
Reviewed on November 16, 2003
Very insightful!

Reviewed by A PAX
Reviewed on November 16, 2003
insightful!

Love you have returned, lo
to chastise me, I was happy
here, until you came.


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