"The Heart is not earthbound"

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Michael (MV)
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"The Heart is not earthbound"

#1 Post by Michael (MV) » 15 Feb 2021, 00:33

A broem in 6 cinquain-chapters, inspired by the Masterpiece, Emily Brontë, and her masterpiece, Wuthering Heights.


1/ (Brontë on the rocks)

Strong will
winds  rains  moors  crags --
definitive high rock
opera before the art went
hi-tech.



2/ (king of pain)

Heathcliff:
Novel study
on the keen scent of male
grief - the wuthering howls - reign of
mad dog



3/ (kindred Spirits make guest appearances)

Stoker's
Count Dracula
inspired after Brontë's
Heathcliff. Real super naturals
don't die. 



4/ (the soul mates never out of print)

Brontë -
beyond bound books:
In creating Heathcliff
Emily's reincarnated
her self



5/  (Art imitating everlasting Life)

Heathcliff: 
"Would you like to 
step out into the air?"  
Cathy: "Always."  Promises are
"Aways."



6/ (The Heights beyond the wuthering)

He wails:
"Cathy, My Love, 
come back!" Instead their Heart
forwards the 2 out of the house
for Home

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Billy
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Re: "The Heart is not earthbound"

#2 Post by Billy » 15 Feb 2021, 09:28

Michael, you have often reference or written about Wuthering Heights. I think this is your best, at least as I remember the others. I nominate it.

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Re: "The Heart is not earthbound"

#3 Post by meenas17 » 15 Feb 2021, 19:57

Your poems are different.
This one is very good as Billy says.
I second his nom.
meenas17

BobBradshaw
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Re: "The Heart is not earthbound"

#4 Post by BobBradshaw » 15 Feb 2021, 22:31

I agree with Billy as well....intriguing subject. Enjoyable to the end.

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Re: "The Heart is not earthbound"

#5 Post by Kenneth2816 » 16 Feb 2021, 00:43

I've never seen the term broem. I am not capable of appreciation due to my ignorance of the form

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Re: "The Heart is not earthbound"

#6 Post by Michael (MV) » 16 Feb 2021, 21:58

Hi Ken (et al),

brother + poetry spells broetry. Like there's chick lit, there's broetry -

A broem is a neology of brother & poem, and describes s subgenre of poetry from a male perspective. Like there's the feminist poem, there's the broem.

Without the lit written by sister Emily, there would not be this broem. Furthermore, because this is a creation prompted by another, there exists sn ekphrastic relationship beyond the bind of book.
There would not be the broem if not for the poet-novelist, Emily Brontë. Estrogen giving rise to testosterone.

All that said, the background info & formal blueprint isn"t an absolute prerequisite for entrance into & engagement with the poem.

I prefix 1/ for the enrichment - and Ken, I hope that is what it is for you now that I have explained - and 2/ because Valentine's puts me in a literary passion 8)

I hope the prefix info isn't pretentious and off-putting;

but instead, a behind-the-scene enrichment.

I know that I like to feed off literary supplements, often referred to as a poet's or author's note, or an artist's statement.

A conversation about the creative process, especially about a work I relate to, is nourishing to my aesthetic sensibilities.


in the spirit of clarification & creativity

😎

Michael

Kenneth2816 wrote:
16 Feb 2021, 00:43
I've never seen the term broem. I am not capable of appreciation due to my ignorance of the form

Michael (MV)
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Re: "The Heart is not earthbound"

#7 Post by Michael (MV) » 20 Feb 2021, 06:18

Thanks, Billy,

Yes, I keep returning - like when you let someone go, and that person returns, it's Love.

And then ultimately, there is no need for more return, for there is Absolute Eternal UniSon.

I find it reinvigorating to reincarnated & reanimate the paracosm envisioned by my kinship-in-creativity, Emily Brontë, when the spirit moves me.

Thanks, Billy, for your read, comment,
and the nomination.

By the way, if it goes forward to the finals, I most likely won't include the prefix.

😎

Michael, (MV)

Billy wrote:
15 Feb 2021, 09:28
Michael, you have often reference or written about Wuthering Heights. I think this is your best, at least as I remember the others. I nominate it.

Michael (MV)
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Re: "The Heart is not earthbound"

#8 Post by Michael (MV) » 20 Feb 2021, 06:28

Thanks, Bob,

for your read & favorable observation -
means volumns to me.

I'm jazzed that the read was an enjoyable experience for you, Bob.

😎

Michael (MV)

BobBradshaw wrote:
15 Feb 2021, 22:31
I agree with Billy as well....intriguing subject. Enjoyable to the end.

Michael (MV)
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Re: "The Heart is not earthbound"

#9 Post by Michael (MV) » 20 Feb 2021, 17:02

Thanks, meenas, for reading & enjoying.

I especially Thank You for sharing your observation:

"Your poems are different."

^^ and that's became I interpret that to say:
my poems are poems that only my voice could write - that's what I live for - that's why I am born & alive forever


and Thanks, meenas, too, for 2nding the nom.


Wonderful - 2 noms & the thread is not even up yet

8)

Michael (MV)

meenas17 wrote:
15 Feb 2021, 19:57
Your poems are different.
This one is very good as Billy says.
I second his nom.
 
 
 
 

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