Friday 23 September 2011

Another Festival poem

More views of - or at - Cambridge Film Festival 2011
(Click here to go directly to the Festival web-site)


24 September

This, too, was written in the session at Murray Edwards College, but not read out during it - it's late, and I forget in what the inspiration for it lay, other than a phrase in a song to which people are dancing in one of the clips and which is quoted.


New Year, Damascus


We know the road there
– Think we do –
And (maybe?) the way back

But when did we know of
Your country, know that others
Travel there – to party?

The women dance, as the words
Sing – behind them – ‘Even your hell
is heaven’:

Faint echoes of
Shakespeare –
Or of Blake?


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