Thoughts Of A War
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Waiting For The Rain by Lawrence Peters - [118 words]
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When Winter Comes by Peter Rivendell The struggle to connect. [148 words]
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TITLE (EDIT)
Thoughts Of A War |
DESCRIPTION
Leaving home...
[240 words] |
AUTHOR
Peter Rivendell |
ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Who me? Born in 1962. Wrote prolifically as a teenager, heavily influenced by books & the music of the time. Stopped writing for 20 years more or less. But started again...
Some of the work here dates from the "early period" - 1979-1982. The rest is since 2000.
I`ve no idea whether I`m a better writer now or then. Maybe I was never any good! I`ve always wondered.
Feedback most welcome...
I've not visited this site at all since January 2006 as I shortly after discovered the unfettred joys of blogging. I'm still writing and actually had a very good summer of writing. I'm posting a recent poem here now but all my recent work is available on my blog - take a look - http://peter-rivendell-poems.blogspot.com/
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AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (53)
A Bright Blue Cloudless Sky (Poetry) A cheery work about emotional displacement, I suppose is one way of putting it. But whatever you think. [184 words]
Across Fields (Poetry) - [25 words] [Relationships]
Adventure Playground (Poetry) - [113 words]
Afraid Of Buildings (Poetry) Written one unhappy morning, but I got a poem out of it... [132 words]
Arriving (Poetry) Just a poem about the way I`ve been feeling lately. [65 words]
At Sea (Poetry) - [39 words]
Best Friend (Poetry) Sometimes you can`t even choose your friends. [62 words]
Catch The Moon (Poetry) An uncertain tale of "forbidden" love. [92 words]
Confusion 1 (Poetry) A game with destiny? You decide. [169 words]
Curiosity Of Nations (Poetry) The destruction of an old way of living leads to escape and renewal. [254 words]
Decisions (Poetry) - [59 words]
Decisions Of Allegiance (Poetry) As a teenager, I revealed my most precious secret to my best friend - my love for him. He rejected me. That painful experience influenced some of the thoughts in this poem. [150 words]
Deep Water (Poetry) Just another day. I know this feeling but we`re not close friends, fortunately. [107 words]
Distortion (Poetry) Written about a million years ago, but still makes a kind of sense...? [129 words]
Drowned (Poetry) A lyric for a love song of sorts - [293 words]
Echoes On Water (Poetry) - [19 words]
Expedition (Poetry) A view of the future? Or a view of the past? Is there any difference? [170 words]
Falling (Poetry) the first poem I wrote after years of not writing... it`s about a feeling that I often have lately, that somewhere along the line, something`s gone horribly wrong and I can`t quite put my finger on it... [132 words]
Flow (Poetry) - [106 words]
Flowers That Only Last A Day (Poetry) - [40 words]
Global Warming (Poetry) - [64 words]
Gone (Poetry) Being miserable is the new black. [197 words]
Heart Of Our Home. (Poetry) Betrayal is not always the greatest betrayal. [83 words]
I Wait (Poetry) Another tale of urban anxiety... probably as much a song as a poem. [133 words]
In Memoriam (Poetry) Short and bitter-sweet. [38 words]
Isolation (Poetry) A poem about... [26 words]
Magazine (Poetry) This poem was inspired by the Berlin novels of Christopher Isherwood (which inspired the musical "Cabaret"). It`s a story set at the moment when you realise that while you`ve been oblivious to events ... [251 words]
Marching Band (Poetry) When love fades... a lyric as much as a poem... [96 words]
Nightscape (Poetry) - [100 words]
Nightwalk (Poetry) About walking alone at night. That`s it. [193 words]
Opening Up (Poetry) Am I no longer enjoying my job...? [198 words]
Paused In Traffic. (Poetry) The January blues, I guess. [100 words]
Performers (Poetry) When you feel like an outsider, sometimes you hope no one ever notices... Written when I was 18. Seems strange to me now, but can just about remember feeling like this - glad I was able to write it do... [239 words]
Pierrot (Poetry) A love letter, after a fashion. [196 words]
Pushing The River (Poetry) - [39 words]
Random Acts (Poetry) Written by writing lines at random and then organising them into a more "organic" kind of flow - and somehow, it tells a story and makes sense. Just an experiment, but a telling one? [204 words]
Sarcophagus (Poetry) Grief and betrayal in a bleak landscape. [204 words]
Scared (Poetry) - [74 words]
Scratched To Grey (Poetry) ... being in love with someone who can never love you back... [145 words]
Sequence (Poetry) Playing and losing a game with fate. [202 words]
Silent Command (Poetry) - [208 words]
Swimming Against The Tide (Poetry) - [90 words]
The Beating Of Wings (Poetry) For you to decide. [254 words]
The Fundamental Loneliness And Futility Of Our Lives In The Context Of The Vast Infinity Of Time And Space... (Poetry) A feeling. [28 words]
The Storm Inside Him (Poetry) The Storm Inside Him [108 words]
The Trees (Control) (Poetry) It`s up to you to decide. I know what I think. (Title: Control - but that was already taken) [161 words]
Threats (Poetry) Sometimes, even in a crowded place you can feel totally alone... [73 words] [Gay & Lesbian]
Trapped In The Masque (Poetry) A dark hymn for troubled times. [120 words]
Triptych (Poetry) Three linked poems about alienation. [339 words]
Two (Poetry) Just a fragment... but it tells the whole story. [24 words]
Unending Rain (Poetry) Crime doesn`t pay. [76 words]
Wave (Poetry) - [34 words]
When Winter Comes (Poetry) The struggle to connect. [148 words]
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Thoughts Of A War
Peter Rivendell
He shifts his suitcase from one hand to another,
Silently gauging the weight.
Contemplating gravity and situations.
Collar turned up against the rain,
He leaves the station and turns.
Converging in the distance,
The railway lines close that part of his life.
The final break.
Periods of rehearsal over the years
Seem irrelevant and with thoughts of home,
He switches to thoughts of a war.
With the air of a concerned stranger,
He surveys the unfamiliar scene,
And makes an arbitrary decision to stay
- as if leaving were one of his alternatives.
A figure brushes past his static form,
And heat flushes in a self-administered wave of humiliation.
In staggered forward motion,
He wonders if there is life on other planets,
And thinks of the life that is his.
A bus shambles past,
Negotiating a slope and advancing age
Like a red warning that bears no hope.
The taxis, lined up to swallow the intermittent stream,
Are financially out of bounds and the girl in the callbox
Smiles as she dials.
He can`t see a clock.
Is impatient with time.
He suggests what he might be waiting for,
And realises that he awaits a signal.
He comes from a town, but his instinctive reactions
Suggest pre-industrial climes.
He thinks of one person,
Perceived through an already vague notion of "home",
And ponders whether he will see him again.
Separation by distance and social design.
Can he be replaced in this new escapade?
This is his long-awaited chance to lay the foundations for some future.
A big opportunity in a big town. In a lot of rain.
And he glances down at feet of clay.
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"You've fallen pray to the 'too much telling and not enough showing,' [my own problem at times, too]." -- Ulysses Hero, England.
"Something special, as most of the literature found here... I can see that “Thoughts of A War” is about movement. Movement of the mind, soul and tears, towards a condition in which the three will be able to properly “clothe” the individual. The words are simple, but what they have to say makes them somehow instable from a semasiological point of view. Not all words can deal with the amount of feeling we try to put in them... This usually happens when translating: sometimes the result is not even close to the original, and the feeling is gone. Anyway, that’s the way this poem is, and is not bad at all. I would say... eight or nine. See the young Verlaine in original and you will know what I meant. " -- Boris Merner, Bucharest, Romania.
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STORYMANIA PUBLICATION DATE
January 2006 |
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