{"id":7388,"date":"2020-07-17T16:51:32","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:51:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/?p=7388"},"modified":"2020-07-17T16:57:13","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:57:13","slug":"the-lovely-lady-in-the-ridiculous-clothes-poems-by-rw-haynes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/the-lovely-lady-in-the-ridiculous-clothes-poems-by-rw-haynes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lovely Lady in the Ridiculous Clothes & Poems by RW Haynes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Lovely Lady in the Ridiculous Clothes
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\nIn a sea of meaningless stuff, that honesty
\nFires up the jaded imagination,
\nEnlivens losing life with lively sensation,
\nAnd calls for music, dancing harmony.
\nSo wear that hat, a dashing pronouncement,
\nThose painted shoes, eye-grabbing things,
\nAnd whatever else inspiration brings
\nTo hear wisdom\u2019s ultimate announcement.
\nThe hat, the crazy shoes, your laughing smile,
\nAre flowers sprung from nowhere, although
\nSweet hope requires that they arrive so,
\nAnd the light has come, now, to stay awhile.
\nThe music does more than speak: it commands,
\nAnd souls step forth and boldly now clap hands.
\n 
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\nHot Date for The Fiddlers\u2019 Convention
\n 
\nBrought against you, then,
\nAn arsenal of betrayals that begin
\nA catalog of unexpected depletions,
\nBeginnings to begin once again,
\nChaos of incompletions.
\n 
\nSo chalk this up to the record then,
\nRemembering themes are just themes,
\nNot formulas, mathematic dreams,
\nJust stuff just good for slogans to rant,
\nUseless epitaphs for grackles to chant.
\n 
\nTune the instrument, tune in the station
\nPlaying the spirit of inspiration.
\nLet the dance continue hard and fast
\nOr deep and slow, but let it play on.
\nLet it go. Leave it playing on at last.
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\nBehind the Old Church
\n 
\nHeavy stone slabs
\nShadowed with warning
\nEcho ominously…
\nThe moon keeps burning…
\n 
\nThe dead stones emanate
\nStupefying cold
\nAround these graves\u2019
\nEnigmas untold,
\n 
\nAnd the ravens look down
\nWith raucous disdain
\nOn stupefied despair,
\nA frozen hurricane…
\n 
\nSilent bells boom
\nAnd clang,
\nTime\u2019s malicious
\nBoomerang.
\n 
\nStep right up,
\nSentimental slave;
\nPour your liquor
\nAll over his grave.
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\nR. W. Haynes<\/strong>, Professor of English at Texas A&M International University, writes various things in prose and in poetic form. His academic specialty is 16th-century England, but much of his work lately has been on the playwright\/screenwriter Horton Foote. His recent poetry collections are Laredo Light <\/em>and Let the Whales Escape<\/em> published summer 2019 ( for further info see under Categories at this site). He recently wrote a play titled Never Claim a Kill<\/em>, and he hopes to complete his novel The Songs of Billy Bonstead before Laredo cools off again<\/em>. Another project in progress is an academic work currently titled The Struggling Spirit in the Plays and Screenplays of Horton Foote.<\/em> In 2016 he was awarded the SCMLA poetry Prize ($500) at the Dallas meeting of the South Central Modern Language Association<\/p>\n

 
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\nRobin Ouzman Hislop is Editor of Poetry Life and Times<\/a> at Artvilla.com<\/a> ; his publications include
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\nAll the Babble of the Souk<\/em> <\/a>, Cartoon Molecules<\/em>, Next Arrivals<\/em> and Moon Selected Audio Textual Poems<\/em>, collected poems, as well as translation of Guadalupe Grande\u00b4s La llave de niebla, as Key of Mist<\/em> <\/a> and the recently published Tesserae<\/em> <\/a> <\/u>, a translation of Carmen Crespo\u00b4s Teselas.
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\nYou may visit Aquillrelle.com\/Author Robin Ouzman Hislop <\/a>about author. See Robin performing his work Performance (University of Leeds)<\/a><\/p>\n

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1]   The Lovely Lady in the Ridiculous Clothes   In a sea of meaningless stuff, that honesty Fires up the jaded imagination, Enlivens losing life with lively sensation, And calls for music, dancing harmony. So wear that hat, a dashing pronouncement, Those painted shoes, eye-grabbing things, And whatever else inspiration brings To hear wisdom\u2019s … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[366,754,401,43,226,504],"tags":[18,136,3],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7388"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7398,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7388\/revisions\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artvilla.com\/plt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}