Written for: dVerse Poets Pub - Poetics: The Charms of Samuel Greenberg (posted by Laura Bloomsbury) "Searching for inspiration for this Poetics prompt, I first fell upon Rimbaud which led me to Hart Crane who surreptitiously resurrected an “impoverished, proto-surrealist poet, who never published a word in his life“.1 That was Samuel Greenberg (1893-1917), to whom Crane gave the epithet ‘the embryo Rimbaud’ and from whom he plagiarised/ lifted/ rewrapped a large number of lines and imagery from Greenberg’s writings. “His favorite word for what he sought in poetry was “charm,” and this poem reads like a charm bracelet on which Greenberg has dangled some tantalising ‘duologues’. Here are some others from that poem:- Dim Accuracy; Candle salve; Consumed moon; Eyes jealousy; Fouls deviation; Grey life; Hearts brow; Lucid farrows; Nulling marrows; Painted mirth; Pale heat; Palmed rose; Pearls from tissue; Pellucid quest; Royal flesh; Skulls of saints; Slime pigments; Spiritual songs; Solitudes wish; Times chant; Yellow dreams; "Your challenge is to take FIVE (no more or less) from these 21 ‘charms’ and string them together in a poem with style and word length of your choosing." A grayness in my life consumed even the moon. You happened by, and painted my life with mirth, yellow dreams of daffodils. In quiet times, I hear the faint chant of chimes. Gray days fade like morning fog. https://dversepoets.com/
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All Greenberg’s surrealist charms – angry, angular – melt into this charming piece. “In quiet
times, I hear the faint chant / of chimes” is lovely.
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Thanks, Peter!
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