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Tea + Poetry

Earl Grey

Notes had been sent asking after my whereabouts. I hadn’t indulged in my favoured Earl Grey, tiramisu and panna cotta combo for months. This is my day off, so I presented myself at my friends’ patisserie just after 11.00 (dessert before breakfast, people) and got to work. Eating, that is.

Orange panna cotta

As for play time, this is what I got up to. Special thanks go to Egbert Starr for permission to work on this composition using excerpts from his brilliant prose poem, The Gallows’ Horse. Please visit his blog to read the full version.

open magazine pages with tiramisu and orange panna cotta

Featured magazine – Numéro, Tokyo, April, 2016. Vol 95: Perfume ads; “Dark Romanticism” and “Pretty Killer” editorials by Ellen Von Unwerth with art direction by Yuni Yoshida.

Dark Romanticism with glass try and tea

Prose poetry excerpted from “The Gallows’ Horse” by Egbert Starr.

Facing pages; poetry on magazine page; empty dessert jars

Upper:
I said to the wise man I met, “Love.” And I said to the crone the same. To children, I said to them, “Love one another.” To kings, philosophers, chemists, scientists of every kind, my message was exactly so.

Lower:
I remembered from the land above the flower of my treachery. I remembered my rage and anger and my fulsome seductions of a thousand Persephones. How pleased I was! How capable! How incisive and cross-quotable my demonic possibilities. I was in the world of common men without compare!

second page with poetry written on

Epic prose poetry, and it tasted fantastic. My friends and I chatted while I worked, so they were my guest editors. Thank you for reading, too. Enjoy a sip of all right until we meet again. SB

By ΠιCΘLΞ

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108 replies on “Tea + Poetry”

Amazing poetry and art! You should sign up on Viewbug.com! There is a contest called “Visual Poetry” currently going on. The rand prize is about $1,000. I think your art and photographs would do really well in their photography contests. I often times search through the pictures of other users and recommend contests for them to join based on what they like to post, and I think your art would be well received there. Here is the link to the contest:

http://www.viewbug.com/contests/visual-poetry-photo-contest

If you sign up, let me know and I’ll follow you on there as well!

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Thanks so much, Ash. The poem isn’t mine so I would have to ask the author for permission. I am not sure if I have the energy to campaign for attention and support in a poetry contest but I will bear this in mind for the future. xo

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