a quick dip into lake Beckett

Craic this is a puzzle to me please enlighten me I love the cryptic nature of this write..

love Brenda

Hullo  

I think Beckett took James Joyce's 'stream of consciousness' thing up a level with his "not I " production in 72'  both poets were kinda ground breaking with their respective writes, more so Joyce since his Ulysses was most likely  the inspiration for Beckett's not I.  anyhow, I figured I'd try one ..a short one  
 
I was hoping the poem would read ok and be enjoyed on its own with no explanation of what it means,  since Beckett never explained what his poems meant, I'll keep the meaning to my self and the one person who needs no explanation  
 
 
thanks much bunches for dropping by, good Lady and for dropping your thoughts

I enjoyed this very much Craic and could feel the strength of feeling conveyed just not clear what made you feel this I guess I was being a wee bit nosey..

great inking!!!

heh, no worries Lady, I'd be just as nosey too.

I love this Eamonn because I don't understand it but can revel in it... ;-)
The more I read it the more I love it...neural pathways in the brain are firing...

Hullo

that's great, it wasn't easy to write. well to not edit.  way out of my normal happy space, but have enjoyed reading over it too.

I'd really like to hear a spoken of it. *hint hint*

thanks for dropping by, and leaving your thoughts, Lady. much appreciated

Well, Craic, a little out of your comfort zones, but hell I liked it!. . .I enjoyed the flow, as well as the bravado, and sometimes it's good to take a plunge into someone else's abyss while making it your own.  Excellent ink;). . .~Devlin.

Hullo  
 
totally agree with the whole plunge thing. kinda getting lazy on those things , very much enjoyed exploring new forms and such in the past. gonna try to some more in the future  
 
I think the flow helps a lot to create a real-time thought chain, so I'm happy that's standing up  
 
thanks heaps for dropping by, dear lady. and for laying down your thoughts  

Like a small boat in a raging storm ... very interesting write, I enjoyed this very much ....

 Hullo, nice to see you


yeah, certainly gets like that at times,  Lady J.  life is an ocean, or lake even  and we are all but small boats.


thank you most kind for dropping by and leaving your foot print, Miss

Ah you.. my guy, have a way of
of comparing and constrasting
strange things

and I love it! lol. .

keep filling us with your ink,
Im so glad your back..

-Howlings

Hullo  
 
very nice to see you too. words: the Bee g's wrote a song about words, and they used a lot of words to write it, which I thought was a remarkable tribute to the things.  
 
you're thanked much for dropping by and leaving your thoughts

I've always pondered what beans meanz

Your pondering took us further than mine - fine write

Hullo,

all depends on location good fellow, I hear in Sierre Leone, beanz meanz mines

appreciate your eyes and words, Whale

I love the chances you take and the rules you break of "traditional" poetry, Eamonn. I suspect it may have been liberating, shedding the clothes of formality to brave the waters of this beautiful and deep lake !

Hullo

it's good to take a chance or two now n' again, Tony.  this was handy enough to write, clicking submit button sans-edit was the tricky bit ...but then I wished I'd kept at it and written a longer one

anyhow,  cheers man. good to see you around

The kind of poetry that reveils new meanings each time it's read,
Enjoyable to read and read again....

Hullo,  thankS

I think sometimes its about luck: to have the words placed in a way which creates other veins of narration, other times it entails a lot of thinking and re thinking. the former world for me most times

thanks for dropping by, Lady

The explanation you provided to Crimsin would make a nice intro to this piece, but either way I liked the evocative surreality of it. Thanks for the read. - Jack xxx

Jack, me 'ol flower. good to see you [ I thought I blocked you back in 11' after the whole Adams defamation, ...and again in 12' after the spiked Kebab incident ,and again in 13..]

cheers man, didn't think of it til the interrogation afterwards. then wished i'd thought of it beforehand

 thanks for dropping by and leaving your thoughts, good to see you knocking aboot

Hey hey Mr Eamon

Absolutely surprised I didn't fall on this piece before.. Samuel Beckett was a bloody genius and delving into his stuff aint no easy task, you seem to have given it justice here, well done. Hat tip at you.

The reference to Elphantile at the end had me perplexed, I understood that to be a island?  

Blue Skies at you

Al

Hulloha

..my estimations say you fell on this piece some weeks ago when you stuck it on yo reading list :D ( thanks much for that ). I watch some short documentaries on YouTube from The school of life philosophies. ..or some words to that effect, 'bout seven mins long tops. from philosophers to poets to generals etc. anyhow I wastched one on both Beckett and Joyce: both very informative ...would totally recommend the Chantal if I knew the exact name of it


anyhow that's the craic behind the idea, and you're thanked lots for dropping by and leaving your thoughts

Huhuh? Was arround these parts a few weeks ago, was I? Oh my goodness, Scotch musta been on special. Naah kidding went off to research Samuel Beckett... Who on earth would comment on a thing they knew absolutely nothing about? Well some I 'spose... I prefer to learn something.

Good on you for them Youtube docies.

its about learning I suppose. can't get enough of it.

you're a clever chap, Al. thanks muchley

Hello lepperochan, luv ~

I'm rather fascinated by this piece. It teases at my brain at various moments unexpected. I come back on occasion to read again, but then I tend to do that with your creations.

Tis rather a gorgeously discomfittingly comforting thing, luv... :-*

Hullo, dear lady. good to see you knocking about

thanks bunches. I know you're sincere, so the words bring warm.

I get really lucky sometimes. good or bad ( I've written a million shit poems ) some people can get me.

it surprises  me when people like yourself and others tend to figure stuff out. sometimes its uncanny

thanks bunches, Missus

Wow Kate!

You read that well!
It's a brilliant audio!

Just wow!

I love that I have no idea what's going on in this and still enjoyed the heck out of it! ☺
Willow

Hullo there

I'll take that as fair compliment, lady, cheers muchly. and cheers muchly indeed for the initial compliment of drop-by and read

The audio on this is superb, and I'm very happy to have stumbled across it. I really love the way that this poem is formatted. The line breaks really help the flow of this. I thought the lack of grammar would hinder this, but it doesn't at all, and the audio just proves this.

Intriguing stuff here.

Hullo  
 
ahh, the audio is fantastic. line-breaks seemed like the only way to inject some tiny bit of order.  agree with you on their workload.  
 
I think grammar may be post-initial thought [ in that we probaly don't 'think' gramatically correct]  so it may be counter productive to use grammar in the articulence of them [ sometimes ]  
 
though I could also be way off ( odd as that may sound )  
 
many thanks to you for dropping by to pay down your thoughts. and also for uploading the audio in my hour of tecniacl ineptness

Thank you Eamonn for the opportunity to record your words...I always enjoy reading them so this was a definite bonus... :-)

Hullo

three weeks before the deadine too.  I was genuinely thrilled when you agreed to take it on

looked forward to hearing how you interpreted the narrative, and was not disappointed

many thanks for the time and effort it must a taken