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Jigsaw
by Kate Burnside → (All Poetry by Kate Burnside)
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Louis MacNeice's poem, "Snow", is one that I have seasonally been dwelling upon recently; my life is pretty "various" right now and shows every sign of continuing to be so well into 2012!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, dear Friends, and may you know the beauty of the unknowable and indefinable which keeps us questing as poets in the strangely bizarre times that are to come....

"World is crazier and more of it than we think,
Incorrigibly plural. I peel and portion
A tangerine and spit the pips and feel
The drunkenness of things being various."

MacNeice, "Snow"

 

 

 

JIGSAW

 

 

So simple at the start:

 

just two parts, male and female,

slotting together like train tracks;

one chance meeting

on the Orient Express.

 

Then pieces became many,

their scene forever expanding –

from feather-imaged firmaments

to fumes and spumes of brimstone

stoked by pitchforks from beneath.

 

Each faint smut of Milky Way and

cresting curl of fathoms could be

placed in a wink of an eye;

 

but one piece of perfect blue still has

notched, uncharted coastline;

awaits some strange, all-seeing cunning

to make its edges fit.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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 Reviews of "Jigsaw"
Reviewed by La Belle Rouge Poetess Of The Heart
Reviewed on January 14, 2012
You know life Kate and you show it to us in your poetry!
Reviewed by Axilea MU
Reviewed on January 13, 2012
It's difficult not to agree, Kate, this poem is almost a piece of evidence, a proof of the theorem. A lovely and lively demonstration. And thank you for sharing "Snow", I love it.

Axilea
Reviewed by Regis Auffray
Reviewed on January 8, 2012
Thank you for sharing this meaningful metaphorical offering, Kate. Well done! Love and best wishes,

Regis
Reviewed by Jms Bell
Reviewed on January 7, 2012
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A 'PERFECT' RELATIONSHIP BUT BECAUSE
'LOVE' IS THERE...TWO GO ON TRYING TO MAKE THE PIECES FIT...UNTIL ONE DAY, THANK GOD, IT DOES. WELL DONE, KATE...A FINE PIECE OF WORK. THANKS FOR SHARING. LOVE, BLESSINGS AND FAITH...
JOYCE * HIS INSPIRATIONS
Reviewed by E T Waldron
Reviewed on January 5, 2012
Well dear Kate, you never miss a beat,this is awesome writing!so good to read you!

Love,
Eileen
Reviewed by A PAX
Reviewed on January 5, 2012
I love the mystery and open endedness of this write...gosh, makes me miss poeming....think I will try it again....
Happy New Year
Anita
Reviewed by Christine Alwin
Reviewed on January 4, 2012
Kate, Oh my, this is fabulous, 2 pieces that fit only give more dimension to what was maybe simplicity, that last piece when connected will span with wings and sail...Happy 2012, make dreams happen!
Love and Blessings,
Christine
Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on January 3, 2012
awesome writing!
Reviewed by Kate Clifford
Reviewed on January 3, 2012
LOVE it!!!
Reviewed by Charlie
Reviewed on January 2, 2012
That last verse is a zinger, Kate--the beauty of wonder. And why should we always have the whole picture? Or is that even possible? I too got puzzles for Christmas-- 0ne box with 10 Kinkaid puzzles. So I went on a bananza of puzzle fitting, stacking one completed puzzle on top of the next, and I noticed that all the puzzles that were a similar size had been cut by the same dye (press?). So, I'm thinking, maybe I should have a little fun now, piecing different puzzle-pics together to make a new kind of Picasso/Kinkaid pic? What would that be like?-- A summer cottage door floating on a gondola down the crashing Maine coast? It could be fun... CA
Reviewed by Christine Tsen
Reviewed on January 2, 2012
Oooh, I love puzzles!
Jigsaw puzzles have been an underlying theme within our household this Christmas, piecing together the fragments of jungles and oceans. Between past and future these puzzles seem to change and shift even as they are pieced together.
May each notch fit in 2012!
Blessings and Happy New Year,
Christine
Reviewed by Phyllis Jean Green
Reviewed on January 2, 2012
F A N T A S T I C !!

Thank you, too, for the Snow quote. Marvelous, isn't it.

HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!

xOx Phyllis xOx

Reviewed by Mr. Ed
Reviewed on January 2, 2012
"In the strangely bizarre times that are to come..."

I think you're right, and I think we all need to be prepared for pieces that may not seem to fit at all. And Happy New Year, To You.
Reviewed by Patrick Granfors
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
If you work a jigsaw puzzle enough times the edges will mate. Never mind that the red leaf abuts the blue bird and the clouds are in the trees. Cunning is overrated when all that matters is a fit. Oh sure, now you want the perfect fit;-)Patrick
Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
coincidentally- so simple at the end ...

that singularity of perspective is the piece that allows the puzzle to see itself completed ... at that point, there are no edges only the totality of its being ... great work, Kate ... it made my synapses fall into place ...
Reviewed by Mary Ann Biddinger
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
A jigsaw ~ like train tracks ~ making the edges fit first
Wonderful poem. Love the verses from "Snow"
The best to you Kate. May there be many blessings bestowed
this New Year ~ Lady Mary Ann
Reviewed by Debby Rosenberg
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
love that last bit - so much life exists there ! Happy New Year!
Reviewed by D. Vegas (Reader)
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Kate, One of your best for sure---Happy New Year!

Always,
Deborah
Reviewed by Amber Moonstone
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
Kate,
Life is like a jigsaw puzzle. You are always finding the pieces and trying to figure out just where they fit into the whole picture. I love this poem to start the New Year out. One of your very best.
May the spirit of the season stay with you for this New Year and may peace, love and light fill your world,
Amber
Reviewed by Jerry Bolton
Reviewed on January 1, 2012
"Jigsaw" is, I think, Kate, at the top of your poetry collection, and that is saying a lot, I know, for you shine continuously.

Still. this one edges out others because you have taken on life, love, sex, man and woman and have, in just a few short verses, kicked ass.

To end this masterpiece with a missing element is bold and cunningly smart. Nothing is ever as we think it is, there are always, "always," variables.

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