Showing posts with label Rabbi Burns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rabbi Burns. Show all posts

Tuesday 30 April 2013

Burns made me do it...

More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2012
(Click here to go directly to the Festival web-site)


1 May

A poem, written in the pub - if not over a malt - yesterday, because of seeing* :

How would you talk about the liquid of whisky.....? Is there a word you would say, or a formula or a poem, or what? pic.twitter.com/ffwPYUE1Fw




Here goes:



To a Dram


Note one thing :
These words,
The water of life,
Are not


Metaphor,
Simile,
Analogy,
Allegory...


No, a direct
Statement
Of pure fact,
Pure as barley


As water
As living yeast,
Which drives
Sugar to thrive


Huge vessels
Whose real size
Defies our mind
(All those litres !)


Cannot contain
The breath of God,
A holy embrace
That blossoms


'Volatile', we say,
'Mercurial'
And all of these –
And none – is Scotch…



©   Copyright Belston Night Works 2013




End-notes

* This should be, for those in the know, 'an embedded Tweet', but Pratter tells me that I'm not authorized** - pretty rough Version, The Agent, not the Authorized Version...

** In fact, I now see that '@WildAndMagic's account is protected'. How lovely !