Brian Strand, UK

 

 

Experimental Poetry   *Emblem Poem   The Church Wall   Motto: 'living stones' Look there, do you see the wall of red brick           each upon the other:           leans with great care. One joined evenly next to the other           bonded together in           equality: Participating in their purposes           combining, each their strengths           the load to share: Weathered with the forms of life on its face           enduring through           eternity:   *This emblem poem WAS inspired by the English poet George Herbert's (1593-1633) The Church-Floore. An emblem poem acts as an explanation of a picture in a symbolic or allegoric way (not unlike a parable). It is a 'crude' picture of an everyday object. Underneath the picture is a motto, followed by the poem (a 16th century English Haiga!!)