Saturday 4 December 2010

He did not know (Prospero's Isle)


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File:FernandoDeNoronhaPraiaSancho.jpg

Praia Sacho, Fernando de Noronha archipelago, off the coast of Brazil: photo by Bjørn Christian Tøorrisen, 2006



He did not know
it's the same old trick
every time; that
in the mystery
waves
speech makes, the world
and mind
are pitched up on the rocks

Prospero did not know
how he got there

island vacations
are like that



File:Wake Island.png

Wake Island: NASA NLT Landsat 7 (Visible Color) satellite image: photo by NASA, 2005
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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous4 December 2010 at 10:01

    wonderful pic ...interesting words....you remind me of Robinson Crusoe...:)

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  2. TC4 December 2010 at 10:23

    Gracias, Sandra.

    I'm overdue for an island vacation.

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  3. Anonymous4 December 2010 at 12:55

    in the mystery
    waves
    speech makes, the world
    and mind
    are pitched up on the rocks

    This and the other lines/sentences are beautifully said and ring true for me.

    I'm hearing you on the island vacation sentiment in a big way.

    The Brazil beach looks splendid. Wake Island looks like an enormous swimming pool set in the ocean. I just revisited Wake's history and remembered some of what I had forgotten. Things seem to have settled down there.

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  4. TC5 December 2010 at 04:19

    Curtis,

    Let's at least agree to experience that island vacation from a reasonable imaginative distance.

    Indeed that beach could not be farther from the world around me at present if it were a dust cloud in the tail of the Andromeda galaxy.

    But happily, one can, in rare fugitive moments, pick the spots where one chooses to imagine oneself.

    See you there, then.

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  5. STEPHEN RATCLIFFE5 December 2010 at 08:15

    Tom,

    Would that we could go there, but as Caliban reminds him, "This island's mine, by Sycorax my mother". . . .

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  6. Robb5 December 2010 at 11:18

    This will stay with me for a while. Especially this:

    in the mystery
    waves
    speech makes, the world
    and mind
    are pitched up on the rocks

    Bradorn, Tom. Bradorn.

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  7. TC6 December 2010 at 07:01

    I'm booking two tickets to the isle of Bradorn right now -- one for me, and one for my mother, Sycorax.

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  8. Elmo St. Rose11 December 2010 at 19:24

    Shakespeare had friends on
    Prospero's island

    Shakespeare grasped the new world

    This rough magic

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  9. TC12 December 2010 at 00:18

    Elmo,

    In that respect, as well as perhaps one or two others, Shakespeare was several leagues ahead of yours truly.

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