IMAGIST POETICS

This blog contains examples of my imagist poetry in a variety of poetic forms.
The poems are my copyright but maybe used for educational purposes provided due acknowledgement is given and advice of such use thereof to strandbg@aol.com

Image” that ..unique instant of time.. the presentation of which gives a sense of sudden liberation; a sense of freedom from time ... and space .. that sense ... experienced in the presence of works of art..unrepeatable.. tangible to the moment.. to present one Image in a lifetime better than volumes of wordplay

TO A WIFE


Softer than the summer rain

Are your kisses refrain,sweet-heart

Couplet Inspired by Amy Lowell's 'To A Husband'

SPACES Gael Turnbull(1928-2004,a Scottish doctor-poet created the imagist Spaces form in his collection Briefly (1967) a two line poem with a larger than usual space
Turnbull  called poems using his device ‘Spaces’, and noted of these ‘The visual “space” is,a pause or hesitation, even a temporary dislocation of attention’ .
Here is an example of mine
CATCH 22

a window pane shatters


nobody makes a home run


SPACES an imagism form it has a title and three lines ,the middle being blank
and left to the readers imagination.

FIRST LOVE

first glance



perchance



A footle-2 lines,2 syllables (ie a trochaic monometer)


GONE AWAY

With
a kiss
on her lips-
a face cold and
bare,
still,
beauty in her stare-
but she was not
there


The lanterne form in a linked sequence


My fingers reach to touch the sky


Where swallows circle,then southwards fly.

A Crystalline


enveloped in fog

the bonfire night party ends...

is life a damp squib ?


A senryu

SOME CINQKU

muffled

bells echo

across the square---

sepia memories

surface


August

shaded gold

becomes monsoon---

berries rot beneath the

bramble



over

the stubble

carrion crows---

the gamekeeper heads home

for tea



SOME CINQUAINS


Springtime,
Daylight unfolds
Soft mist,and mild days of
Blue-bell glaze,growing wild beneath
God's gaze.


BRING TO LIGHT

Sunlight
in the shadows,
sliver lining the cloud-
forgiveness heals with whispers said
aloud


A LITERAL IMPRESSION

Flowing
swirling swathes swarm,
fervent,fervid feelings-
stirring stark sensations once hid
within.



ALL HALLOWS EVE

Skipping
across the lawn
dead leaves dance together-
until the tempo fades as the
moon drops.

FIBONACCI

NATURE'S IRONY

Just
out
of reach-
blackberries
above the nettles


ELEVEN,ELEVEN,ELEVEN


Chill breath of autumn
Sears the poppy scarlet red,
On his memory'd cenotaph.

Tears trickle in the furrowed
Faces of young comrades
.....now long dead


A Sestet


VIDUAGE

Tall
nettles-
the dutch hoe
rusting in the
shed.


A lanterne


Cameo-OLD WIVES TALES

I change.... but in death

a bay leaf falls and dies-

My regret ... follows you to the grave

upon the fresh earth the asphotel lily lies-

In country lore of days of old

flowers ...a symbolic story told

NOTE Imagists use clear, simple language to paint a picture. Imagery, on the other hand, is use of flowery and descriptive language, and often figurative language, to create an image in the reader’s mind. An imagist would keep things simple, and not use imagery other than specific sensory details.