Snowdrop Quennet for Candlemas

Tags

Candlemas, quennet, snowdrops

Candlemas Bells     White Purification    Snow Piercers

Milk Flowers

Naked Maidens       Good Christians        Ice Lilies

Mary’s Tapers

February Fairmaids     White tears         Death Flowers

Eve’s Comforters

Morning Stars

Pentecost Flowers

Mary’s Teeth

Dewdrops

Shrove Tuesday Fools

Flowers of Hope

Dingle-Dangles

Snow Bells          Eve’s Tears       Mary’s Tears

Candlemas Lilies

 

 

c Photo and poem by Candia Dixon-Stuart

 

 

 

 

Mungo Man

Tags

Australia, bilbies, bush tucker, dingos, Dreamtime, Mungo Man, Pintubi trackers, quennet, sedimentation, wattle, Willandra Lakes

Willandra Lakes area, NASA image

 

 

post Dreamtime  terminal decline   Willandra Lakes

bush tucker

Wattle seeds       emu eggs     dried basin

flightless birds

widespread bushfires   preserved footprints   wandering child

missed spear

Pintubi trackers

one-legged man

lake sedimentation

bilbies and dingos

empty cranium

covered traces

widespread footsteps   bush child   dried lakes

Dreamtime seeds

 

 

Margaret Preston

Tags

Berowra, Flowering Peach, Harbour Foreshore, Implement Blue, Margaret Preston, Mosman Bay, quennet, Shoalhaven River, Sydney Head

(Photo in public domain via Wikipedia

Margaret Preston at her Berowra home,

1936)

 

Mosman Bay   Sydney Bridge   Harbour Foreshore

Shoalhaven River

Flowering Peach   Still Life   Modernist principles

Gum blossom

Implement Blue   bruise palette  Australian Legend

Berowra suburbs

commonplace truths

soda fountain

Lacquer Room

fragmented planes

rhythmic sea

golden thread

unseen things

life blossom    flowering palette   still river

Modernist Legend

 

 

 

Stanley Spencer’s War

Tags

Burghclere, Ekiphrastic, Home Front, John Greening, Macedonia, quennet, Raymond Queneau, Sandham Memorial Chapel, Stanley Spencer, Ware Poetry Competition

A quennet- a form invented by Raymond

Queneau in 1975.

This is an Ekiphrastic poem, dealing with the

discussion of a visual work of art.  It was commended

in the Ware Poetry Competition, judged by John Greening

and appears (ed) in the subsequent anthology.

It was inspired by a visit to The Sandham Memorial

Chapel at Burghclere, near Basingstoke, which Stanley

Spencer decorated with murals, depicting the

ordinariness of war, on The Home Front and in

Macedonia, where he served as a medical orderly.

The formatting is not quite right as WordPress

doesn’t allow me to centre and retain the spacing,

with the short noun phrases being centred beneath

the long line of 3 noun phrases.  The 5 line interlude

with the syllable counts of  2-5 should also be centred….

Nevertheless, you’ll get the idea!

 

 

 

precious horses   scavenging boar   tortoise company

mosquito nets

protective firebelt   unravelled puttee   distant Christ

Kalinova katharsis

Macedonian map   heavenly tea   wounded convoy

smuggled kitten

hotwater bottle

frostbitten foot

jam sandwiches

magenta bathtubs

traumatised scrubbing

iodine painting

bilberry feast

unravelled company  Macedonian mosquito  precious kitten

wounded Christ

Mansplaining Quennet

Tags

euphemism, Father of Lies, generic, mansplaining, quennet, rhetoric, smokescreen

Females also guilty – should be ‘Mankindsplaining!’ (New generic?)

 

Hot air   forked tongues   terminal inexactitudes

filthy whitewash

tranparent smokescreens   inexcusable excuses   unmitigated untruths

hollow rants

iniquitous insinuations  criminal understatements  overblown rhetoric

smooth sham

Father of Lies

sweeping evasions

Master of Deceit

euphemistic gloss

hyperbolic tirades

Hath God said?

rash incitements

hollow rhetoric   smooth tongues  transparent excuses

iniquitous inexactitudes

Elementary Morality Poem

Tags

Elementary Morality, Fifties childhood, Hellfire preaching, Lucozade, pea souper, Queneau, quennet, Redemption Hymnal

…a form outlined by Queneau.  A ‘quennet’ to his followers.

It starts with 3 sets of  noun phrases on one line, followed by a

single one on the second line.

Repeat 3 times. (6 lines)

Then 7 lines of 1 – 5 syllables,

followed by

a final 2 line sequence of  3 noun phrases on one line

and a final one on the last line.  These must incorporate words from

the first set, but in new combination.

 

For example:

 

Fifties Childhood

 

dense pea-soupers  dripping condensation  wheezing chest

Lucozade film

cold stethoscope  smoky pipe  nosy neighbour

hacking cough

headscarfed curlers  Redemption Hymnal  pigswill bucket

Hellfire preaching

trapped rabbit

netted

bludgeoned to death

a screaming child

kind old man

saved cabbages

bloodied corpse

dense preaching  smoky Hellfire  cold Redemption

dripping bucket