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Pointing At The Moon

You have wandered onto my poetry pages. Turn back now, before it's too late! :-)

As you read these, please speak them aloud to yourself. The form of most of my poems reflects a strong belief that poetry should be a spoken, visceral art rather than a bloodless intellectual exercise meant for eyes and brain only.

I'm very interested in oral-tradition poetry like the surviving Viking material, Beowulf, Homer, the Kalevala, and so forth. I'm not a fan of most `modern' poetry, which has largely forgotten the roots of the art in speech and song and dance and chant and ritual and invocation. I go back to those for inspiration.

These poems are in chronological order of composition.

  1. Stone Song
  2. Five Haiku
  3. Voyaging
  4. Turnabout
  5. Word-Wise
  6. Catsclaw

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Eric S. Raymond <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>