Spirit Eyes

Fiction & Literature, Poetry
Cover of the book Spirit Eyes by Maurice Whelan, Ginninderra Press
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Author: Maurice Whelan ISBN: 9781760412890
Publisher: Ginninderra Press Publication: February 7, 2017
Imprint: Ginninderra Press Language: English
Author: Maurice Whelan
ISBN: 9781760412890
Publisher: Ginninderra Press
Publication: February 7, 2017
Imprint: Ginninderra Press
Language: English

In ‘Mount Cargill’, a poem in Maurice Whelan’s book Excalibur’s Return, he described running up Mount Cargill in New Zealand with Richard O’Neill-Dean, to whom that volume was dedicated. Richard responded to Maurice’s latest collection, Spirit Eyes, with a poem of his own, after discussing how Maurice sets about crafting a poem and the importance he attaches to a central thought or idea upon which the poem is constructed.

Shipwright

for Maurice Whelan, poet

He might look out the odd plank,

let it season slowly,

covered from the rain,

so that frames, ribs, stringers,

in the imagination, slowly form,

the particular twist or warp or grain

of a thought

favouring the idea of a hull,

sensitive to wind and wave,

to keep out storms,

to manage strains.

But, beyond all, the keelson,

massive, strong,

it must permit of no bend,

take long keel-bolts,

going down through heartwood,

to fasten the lead weight

of a real thought,

many tons,

to keep a good poem upright,

and carrying on,

tied in tight, to bind

all between the sweet lines

of its stem and stern,

to make a fine entry,

to set its wake

upon the oceans

of the mind

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In ‘Mount Cargill’, a poem in Maurice Whelan’s book Excalibur’s Return, he described running up Mount Cargill in New Zealand with Richard O’Neill-Dean, to whom that volume was dedicated. Richard responded to Maurice’s latest collection, Spirit Eyes, with a poem of his own, after discussing how Maurice sets about crafting a poem and the importance he attaches to a central thought or idea upon which the poem is constructed.

Shipwright

for Maurice Whelan, poet

He might look out the odd plank,

let it season slowly,

covered from the rain,

so that frames, ribs, stringers,

in the imagination, slowly form,

the particular twist or warp or grain

of a thought

favouring the idea of a hull,

sensitive to wind and wave,

to keep out storms,

to manage strains.

But, beyond all, the keelson,

massive, strong,

it must permit of no bend,

take long keel-bolts,

going down through heartwood,

to fasten the lead weight

of a real thought,

many tons,

to keep a good poem upright,

and carrying on,

tied in tight, to bind

all between the sweet lines

of its stem and stern,

to make a fine entry,

to set its wake

upon the oceans

of the mind

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