September 2014
I love words and dig poetry slams. I've been writing poetry since I was about 5 years old and my mother tells everyone I was born with a pen in my hand. I am a project manager by profession and reside in Utah with my handsome husband and our two outstanding children. You can read more of my work and follow my poetry adventures here: http://trishhopkinson.com/.
Melting
Coming undone in the sun
while sitting calm on colossal steps,
perspiration takes bits of body
drips to the next step
and pools patiently.
Frozen figures notwithstanding,
from Sao Paolo to Paris to Berlin
thousands melt monumentally
while passersby stop to watch
their imago in ruin.
Inspired by: Melting Man, Berlin sculptures by Nele Azevedo. 2002 – 2010.
http://www.unurth.com/Nele-Azevedo-Melting-Man-Berlin
Coming undone in the sun
while sitting calm on colossal steps,
perspiration takes bits of body
drips to the next step
and pools patiently.
Frozen figures notwithstanding,
from Sao Paolo to Paris to Berlin
thousands melt monumentally
while passersby stop to watch
their imago in ruin.
Inspired by: Melting Man, Berlin sculptures by Nele Azevedo. 2002 – 2010.
http://www.unurth.com/Nele-Azevedo-Melting-Man-Berlin
Alice Liddel, later Alice Hargreaves, 1852–1934,
was the girl for and about whom Lewis Carroll wrote
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
was the girl for and about whom Lewis Carroll wrote
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
Worlding
She holds her palm like a cup
for fear she might lose the tiny grains
to the ground. She’s worn to the soul
beneath tattered cloth, her bare toes
pressing into the earth.
She nearly blends into the stone,
the vines at her feet, their leaves
bowing as if to worship.
But it’s her stare that haunts
and distorts, surreal and smart,
like a child who knows too much
and holds the universe in her hand.
Inspired by: Photograph of Alice Liddell as a beggar-maid (from the story of Cophetua). Supposed tear hole or ink-blot in photo digitally removed. This was first published in Carroll's biography by his nephew: Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson (1898) The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, London: T. Fisher Unwin, pp. p. 80 Retrieved on 22 December 2010. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_Liddell_2.jpg
She holds her palm like a cup
for fear she might lose the tiny grains
to the ground. She’s worn to the soul
beneath tattered cloth, her bare toes
pressing into the earth.
She nearly blends into the stone,
the vines at her feet, their leaves
bowing as if to worship.
But it’s her stare that haunts
and distorts, surreal and smart,
like a child who knows too much
and holds the universe in her hand.
Inspired by: Photograph of Alice Liddell as a beggar-maid (from the story of Cophetua). Supposed tear hole or ink-blot in photo digitally removed. This was first published in Carroll's biography by his nephew: Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson (1898) The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll, London: T. Fisher Unwin, pp. p. 80 Retrieved on 22 December 2010. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alice_Liddell_2.jpg
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