HW: M.Moorcock (or Bob??) IT took me ages!Enjoy?

[alan day]

Thanks Mr.! I'm gonna get this .It took me ages 'cos I was listening to a
copynthat 's good ..but a tad speeded up.Al.Reading it as it is also makes
me ask this ?? When I first haerd Moterway City,9first album I'd heard... in
'82 ,I heard it as I'm going to  (gonna) White City !! I worked there at the
time! Thanks Alan .






>From: Alan Linsley <alankerren at YAHOO.CO.UK>
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>Subject: Re: HW: M.Moorcock (or Bob??) IT took me ages!Enjoy?
>Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 20:21:48 +0100
>
>didn't take me all that long -
>
>*Ode To A Time Flower* by Robert Calvert (New Worlds 5, pub.1973)
>
>Your calyx hides a nectary of time
>That with my fingers I could pluck as easily
>As sounding strings to recite their chime.
>And your most exquisite petals melt icily
>In my palm.  To hold the flow of moments past
>As carefully as I would my last
>Few seconds on Earth.  Would that be Crime?
>Or if I picked you just to see you turn
>To crystalled pearl in my eyes, and learn
>How Man is Angel on his way from slime.
>
>Did heedless Eve think twice before she broke
>The enjewelled fruit from its brittle stem.
>Or the first man to reach out and stroke
>The marijuana leaf condemn
>Himself for greed when harvesting
>And burning such a golden thing.
>As this dreaming poet who just then spoke
>Of your sacredness, and is now prepared
>to do exactly as he first declared
>And make of his museful words a joke.
>
>But not quite as easy after all
>I find, as my fingers reach to grasp,
>Your gleaming head to wrench from its tall
>Transparent stalk, they refuse to clasp.
>As did Pandora's eager hands hold still
>At the thought of the box containing ill.
>Or the stoned explorers of Medusa stall
>For time, not entered in their log,
>Before they dared the petrific fog
>That holds them still in its timeless thrall.
>
>********* a nectary of time
>That with my fingers I could pluck as easily
>As sounding strings to recite their chime.
>And your most exquisite petals melt icily
>In my palm.  To hold the flow of moments past
>As carefully as I would my last
>Few seconds on Earth.  Would that be Crime?
>Or if I picked you just to see you turn
>To crystalled pearl in my eyes, and learn
>How man is Angel on his way from slime.
>
>Note the references to (First Landing on) Medusa and the (Hawkwind)
>log.  Read by Moorcock (strangely, as Bob was there) at Windsor 1973.
>
>AL
>  --- alan day <yadnala at HOTMAIL.COM> wrote: > I at m gonna try and do this
>accuratly...
> > Your courage hides a nectory of time
> > but withmy fingers I...
> > and learn how Man is Angel on His way from slime..
> > Or the 1st man to reach out and stroke the Mariyana leaf?
> > Condemn himself for greed when havaesting and burning such agolden
> > thing?
> > As this dream poet who first then spoke of your sacredness and is now
> > prepared to do exactly as he 1st declared and make of his newtral
> > words
> > just a joke But not point as easily,after all.....I find as my
> > fingers reach
> > to grasp your gleeming head..to rench from its tall,transparent
> > stalk,they
> > refuse to clasp...as DEPENDORA's eager hands hold still,at the
> > thought of
> > the BUts,,,containing illall the stoned explorers of Medusa's
> > stallfor
> > time,not entered in their log...before they dared the petrific fog
> > that
> > ho;ds them stillin its timeless cold,,,A nectury of time...but with
> > my
> > fingers I could cut as easily as sounding string to recite their
> > time...and
> > your most exqusit petals melt icilyin my palms...to hold the flow of
> > moments...past as carefully as I would my last fewn seconds left on
> > earth...would that be crime??Or if I pricked you ..just to see you
> > turn to
> > crystal pearl in myeyes and learned...HOW MAN IS ANGEL...ON HIS WAY
> > FROM
> > SLIME REPEAT TO FO MADNESS....sORRY 4 THE MISTAKES....lOLVE YOU ALL!!
> >
>
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