vandiemenspeak
vandiemenspeak
Aug 14, 2017
This poem is part of the workshop:

Poets first poems

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Bluebell Woods in Hockley (first poems workshop)

Echo. Ever echoing come
words from the wild wood

drifting, always beckoning
that I should come for good

to the deep and the deepening
dusty silent still

heart, heart of the forest where
the thumping darkness will

find every thought in me
and lay them thick and flat

out on a carpet
of moss and bluebell sat

down, down in the forest,
lost to the mystery

solved and resolved to the silence
ever encircling me.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: OK so I can't find the *very first poem I wrote, it's lost in the stuff that came from the UK. But, this was the first thing i did, and printed out, back in the UK, when I was in my late teens, and first playing around with words. I'd dropped out of English, to study Computing (thanks Dad) and wished I stuck with it. I eventually stuck it up on an early website that I setup, called "Cornered Poetry" ooh bad bad pun, I thought it was so clever. Anyway, it's as early as it gets for me..way back in nineties world. Cheers. Chris.

Review Request Intensity: I want the raw truth, feel free to knock me on my back

Editing Stage: Not actively editing

About the Author

Region, Country: Tasmania,Australia,Earth,Solar Systems,Milky way,Pint of Guniess, AUS

Favorite Poets: Glen Richards

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Comments

jane210660

it's an early piece of work, there is that sort of brash rawness about it. Poetry trends change too and if I'd read this when you wrote it, I'd have hailed you as the next poetic god.
We've both come on a piece since then, our styles are more subtle and complex.
Yet I can still recognise you in here and I still take my hat off to you.
Jx

vandiemenspeak

I liked it back then, and i still like it. Students. I thought I was so clever putting the full stop after the first "echo" - oh...visionary! But, that place dose exist, and I walked there, and it's all very real in my memory.

Thank you.

Cheers,

Chris.

Obadiah Grey

I would be quite happy were this my latest work.
Thought the repeat words worked well, and,,, "deep and the deepening
dusty silent still" really like that.
Could almost hear Richard Burton reading it.

Obi.

Geezer

almost ethereal quality and can see the foggy morning fading off into the sunlit afternoon and then the dusk of the deep wood. Excellent! ~ Gee.
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vandiemenspeak

It's still there I hope (not a housing estate) let me see..

Hmm, it was a small nature reserve, in the Hill above the road into Nottingham from Southwell, that followed the Newark line, it looked like this, although this is a different Hockley(!) but this is what it was like when they were out:

http://hockleywoods.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/bluebells-hockley-wo…

and I used to go up here a fair bit too, which was an inspirational place:

http://www.nottinghamshirewildlife.org/nature-reserves/ploughman-wood/

I've found another woodland down here in Tassie, that gives me a different, re-kindled inspiration.

Thank you

Chris.

vandiemenspeak

Morning, wow! It's 10:22 pm here. Glad it found you in the woods again. There is something very settling about woods I think we all get that. Silence is amplified between the gaps in the creaks and rustles of under-story.

Thanks.

Chris.

S

I'm inspired!
Mt next day off
I'm gone
Into the forest
Let me get lost
No guiding needed
Let lost guide us.....

vandiemenspeak

Glad it was a welcome introduction! It's a long time since I was lost in those woods, but I have since found a new one to get lost in/entranced in.
You''ll find everyone very welcoming and supportive here, and get lots of constructive suggestions for your work, which I will read.

Thanks for the comments, glad you enjoyed.

Chris.