... This is, at least, geographically accurate! :)) K xx
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AT REDHORN POINT
The silky womb of harbour at its mouth
is crinkle-edged – soft-sand foreshore
and suckling mudflats, on which beached
vessels doze, unsuspectedly broken
against weather’s squalled passion.
Like basking seals at Redhorn Point
we lie under the lee of a rusting carcass,
it’s iron spines and knotted joints
an easel to our seascape canvas.
My head resting on an upstretched arm
like a prow’s figurehead, I trace your ribs
through the taut hull of your chest, fingers
seeking my ghost, watching your nipples
shiver their remembrance like tiny moths
in the soft-grassed dunes behind.
A sudden breeze quickens;
there’s flapping and the wading birds
rise as one deep intake of breath.
The sleeping giant stirs.
Flesh on it bones spreads like fire,
setting the ship alight.
There’s creaking of well-oiled leathers,
easing of waterlogged ropes and
the scent of many-seasoned timbers.
Alive on this fast-rising tide, we are
listing and tilting and rocking,
our burgeoning sails filling at beam reach.
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Reviews of "At Redhorn Point - Thank you Estrella, and Look! Sage... No Strings! :))"
Kate, I love the metaphor in this poem...the vivid images jumping out at the reader and the voice painting a picture of unknown beauty. An exceptional write here Kate...one to be proud of.
All ashore who's goin ashore! Nay, me thinks I'll stay in the passionate sea a while. Beautifully penned, Kate, one of your best, I love how comfortable you are in your own skin! BRAVA!
Marvelous! And as a fan of old maps, I like your graphic, too.
Reviewed by Andy Turner (Reader)
Reviewed on July 17, 2007
Takes a few reads Kate to appreciate the metaphorical depths and beauty of this write,love that transcends merely the phsyical.
A celebration of one at ease with her femininity, can almost hear and smell the discriptions painted in this atmospheric poem.... Pure class and Classical...
Reviewed by Victor Buhagiar (Reader)
Reviewed on July 17, 2007
You surpass yourself Kate. Not an easy subject. Victor
I truly enjoyed this sweet Kate, and the terminology combined with the may brought me back to my days on the water and to my images of pirates and buccaneers. The sensuality of the methaphors comparing the scene to the sexuality of the lovers or vice versa is brilliant and has the readers brain working overtime. Kate this is great stuff indeed.
This is a beaut! Believe it or not, despite all of the luscious sensuality in this poem, my favorite stanza is the second. That is incredible imagery, Kate!!
Love,
Susan
NO STRINGS indeed! Straight...and I said STRAIGHT out of Chapter 4 of D.H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover -
"The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
"`The whole point about the sexual problem,' said Hammond, who was a tall thin fellow with a wife and two children, but much more closely connected with a typewriter, `is that there is no point to it. Strictly there is no problem. We don't want to follow a man into the w.c., so why should we want to follow him into bed with a woman? And therein lies the problem. If we took no more notice of the one thing than the other, there'd be no problem. It's all utterly senseless and pointless; a matter of misplaced curiosity.'
"`Quite, Hammond, quite! But if someone starts making love to Julia, you begin to simmer; and if he goes on, you are soon at boiling point.'...Julia was Hammond's wife.
"`Why, exactly! So I should be if he began to urinate in a corner of my drawing-room. There's a place for all these things.'
"`You mean you wouldn't mind if he made love to Julia in some discreet alcove?'
"Charlie May was slightly satirical, for he had flirted a very little with Julia, and Hammond had cut up very roughly.
"`Of course I should mind. Sex is a private thing between me and Julia; and of course I should mind anyone else..."
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One of my favorite passages In Lady Chatterley's Lover, and Estrella, take note here...be kind to your sensuous self and I loved the bio pic of you in the angelic white feathers...
And, might I remind you, Kate, the arguement that the main subject of Lady Chatterley's Lover is not the sexual passages which were the subject of such debate, but the search for integrity and wholeness. Key to this integrity is cohesion between the mind and the body for "body without mind is brutish; mind without body…is a running away from our double being." Lady Chatterley's Lover focuses on the incoherence of living a life that is 'all mind', which Lawrence saw as particularly true among the young members of the aristocratic classes, as in his description of Constance and her sister Hilda's "tentative love-affairs" in their youth. The contrast between mind and body can be seen in the dissatisfaction each has with their previous relationships: Constance's lack of intimacy with her husband who is 'all mind', and Mellors' choice to live apart from his wife due to her "brutish" sexual nature. These dissatisfactions lead them into a relationship which builds very slowly and is based upon tenderness, physical passion and mutual respect. As the relationship between Lady Chatterley and Mellors develops, they learn more about the interrelation of the mind and the body; she learns that sex is more than a shameful and disappointing act and he learns about the spiritual challenges that come from physical love. Printed privately in Florence in 1928, it was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960. Lawrence considered calling this book Tenderness at one time and made significant alterations to the original manuscript in order to make it palatable to readers. It has been published in three different versions. The publication of the book caused a scandal due to its explicit sex scenes, including previously banned four-letter words, and perhaps particularly because the lovers were a working-class male and an aristocratic female.
At Redhorn Point - Thank you Estrella, and Look! Sage...No Strings is in tandem with my mood lately...sexed by nature with No Strings! Thank you for this, Kate...this opus renews my interest in Lady Chatterley's Lover, most excitedly evocative of this D.H. Lawrence book cover of the Phoenix rising from the ashes...be well...Blessed Be.
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Leland
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(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in America, Karen Lynn in Texas. :D
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
A celebration of one at ease with her femininity, can almost hear and smell the discriptions painted in this atmospheric poem.... Pure class and Classical...
hugs
Pops
Love,
Susan
Eileen
"The world is supposed to be full of possibilities, but they narrow down to pretty few in most personal experience. There's lots of good fish in the sea...maybe...but the vast masses seem to be mackerel or herring, and if you're not mackerel or herring yourself you are likely to find very few good fish in the sea.
"`The whole point about the sexual problem,' said Hammond, who was a tall thin fellow with a wife and two children, but much more closely connected with a typewriter, `is that there is no point to it. Strictly there is no problem. We don't want to follow a man into the w.c., so why should we want to follow him into bed with a woman? And therein lies the problem. If we took no more notice of the one thing than the other, there'd be no problem. It's all utterly senseless and pointless; a matter of misplaced curiosity.'
"`Quite, Hammond, quite! But if someone starts making love to Julia, you begin to simmer; and if he goes on, you are soon at boiling point.'...Julia was Hammond's wife.
"`Why, exactly! So I should be if he began to urinate in a corner of my drawing-room. There's a place for all these things.'
"`You mean you wouldn't mind if he made love to Julia in some discreet alcove?'
"Charlie May was slightly satirical, for he had flirted a very little with Julia, and Hammond had cut up very roughly.
"`Of course I should mind. Sex is a private thing between me and Julia; and of course I should mind anyone else..."
******************************************
One of my favorite passages In Lady Chatterley's Lover, and Estrella, take note here...be kind to your sensuous self and I loved the bio pic of you in the angelic white feathers...
And, might I remind you, Kate, the arguement that the main subject of Lady Chatterley's Lover is not the sexual passages which were the subject of such debate, but the search for integrity and wholeness. Key to this integrity is cohesion between the mind and the body for "body without mind is brutish; mind without body…is a running away from our double being." Lady Chatterley's Lover focuses on the incoherence of living a life that is 'all mind', which Lawrence saw as particularly true among the young members of the aristocratic classes, as in his description of Constance and her sister Hilda's "tentative love-affairs" in their youth. The contrast between mind and body can be seen in the dissatisfaction each has with their previous relationships: Constance's lack of intimacy with her husband who is 'all mind', and Mellors' choice to live apart from his wife due to her "brutish" sexual nature. These dissatisfactions lead them into a relationship which builds very slowly and is based upon tenderness, physical passion and mutual respect. As the relationship between Lady Chatterley and Mellors develops, they learn more about the interrelation of the mind and the body; she learns that sex is more than a shameful and disappointing act and he learns about the spiritual challenges that come from physical love. Printed privately in Florence in 1928, it was not printed in the United Kingdom until 1960. Lawrence considered calling this book Tenderness at one time and made significant alterations to the original manuscript in order to make it palatable to readers. It has been published in three different versions. The publication of the book caused a scandal due to its explicit sex scenes, including previously banned four-letter words, and perhaps particularly because the lovers were a working-class male and an aristocratic female.
At Redhorn Point - Thank you Estrella, and Look! Sage...No Strings is in tandem with my mood lately...sexed by nature with No Strings! Thank you for this, Kate...this opus renews my interest in Lady Chatterley's Lover, most excitedly evocative of this D.H. Lawrence book cover of the Phoenix rising from the ashes...be well...Blessed Be.
Love,
Sage
thank you for sharing!!
love tinka
these types of writes, expressing
so much. You've captured the essence
of the sea and sailing. Awesome!