G. Newton V. Chance - Orchid
five-pointed star-
tepal
flesh-pink lip-
petal
seduction
six-pointed star-
petal
and sepal
floral attraction
pink-flesh lip-
petal
resupinated labellum-
mmmmmmm
excitement
enticement
six-
leg in-
sect
land on
obsession
flesh-pink perfumed lip-
petal
pink-flesh enlarged lip-
petal
six-pointed purple-stripe star-
tepal
pedicel
in petal
and sepal
equal
polli-
nation
testicles are roots
woman
you must have bee-
nnnnnnnnnn
an orchid
and I a bumblebee
in another life
Copyright ©2010 by G. Newton V. Chance
Newton Chance can't fool me. When I left a comment on his blog saying 'I'm so glad I'm not the only who's ever looked a little too closely at an orchid and thought dirty thoughts' he tried to play it off as though I had some sort of floral fetish. But the truth is obvious. Go back to the top. Read this poem out loud. Let each syllable spill over your tongue and teeth and lips. Let your breathing follow the rhythm provided by the line breaks. Listen to your own voice in your chest. I honestly don't know how he's done it, but Newton Chance, wizard of words that he is, has not only managed to distill foreplay and seduction into written form, and he's done so not with over-the-top double-entendres or sexual references, but with...orchids. Bravo, Mr. Chance. Bravo.
(From his blog: http://newton-chance.blogspot.com)
George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
five-pointed star-
tepal
flesh-pink lip-
petal
seduction
six-pointed star-
petal
and sepal
floral attraction
pink-flesh lip-
petal
resupinated labellum-
mmmmmmm
excitement
enticement
six-
leg in-
sect
land on
obsession
flesh-pink perfumed lip-
petal
pink-flesh enlarged lip-
petal
six-pointed purple-stripe star-
tepal
pedicel
in petal
and sepal
equal
polli-
nation
testicles are roots
woman
you must have bee-
nnnnnnnnnn
an orchid
and I a bumblebee
in another life
Copyright ©2010 by G. Newton V. Chance
Newton Chance can't fool me. When I left a comment on his blog saying 'I'm so glad I'm not the only who's ever looked a little too closely at an orchid and thought dirty thoughts' he tried to play it off as though I had some sort of floral fetish. But the truth is obvious. Go back to the top. Read this poem out loud. Let each syllable spill over your tongue and teeth and lips. Let your breathing follow the rhythm provided by the line breaks. Listen to your own voice in your chest. I honestly don't know how he's done it, but Newton Chance, wizard of words that he is, has not only managed to distill foreplay and seduction into written form, and he's done so not with over-the-top double-entendres or sexual references, but with...orchids. Bravo, Mr. Chance. Bravo.
(From his blog: http://newton-chance.blogspot.com)
George Newton Vivian Chance (Trinidad and Tobago) -- member of the Poet Society of Trinidad and Tobago, http://poetssocietytt.blogspot.com/ and the World Poets Society, http://world-poets.blogspot.com/ -- born in Tobago on 3rd March 1957. While residing at Rio Claro was inspired to write over a hundred poems at the turn of the Millennium. Hobbies include playing wind instruments, building computers, observing nature, reading and writing poetry. Believes that the power of a song is in its ability to evoke emotions by the marriage of lyric and music but that music without lyric can be just as powerful, that lyric without music can also be just as powerful, that there is music in the lyric and that lyric can be simple yet profound. Also, in this the age of computers, would like to model his lines after simple and efficient code and, analogous to Object Oriented Programming, achieve most of his imagery from nouns and verbs, avoiding the bloat and excess of unnecessary adjectives. This is what he aspires to attain in his poetry.
2 comments:
Andre, you know I was only teasing you with that comment. Thanks a million for your appreciation and comments.
Like the success of a song can only be gauged by the response of the listeners, so too the impact of a poem can only be decided by the readers.
Haha! Yeah, of course. No worries.
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