I would talk to you of beauty

[billy]

I Would Talk to You of Beauty from here on it has to be really good

I would talk to you of beauty; no more to spew out bile and spite.
What glory to my eye, green fields, all starry topped in yellow trim.
And  there, the poppy, clustered red:
remember him, remember him. green fields made me think of a song called "the green fields of france" so far so good as far as beauty goes

I would talk to you of beauty; not of the choking  guilty men.
But of the joy of  a high  grown tree, all lichen hosed with glossy  crown!
Though scarred the  bark, and worn the bough,
where ropes of justice once hung down. sounds poignant with a different kind of beauty

I would talk to you of beauty, of  seas aglow  with  nuclear blue. nuclear doesn't work with a beach invasion unless it's in japan this one presumably is the french coastline.
Foamed irridescence,  hyaline  white, comes fast and fluid to the shore,
to sink in sands of  shingle bright,
that buries deep the stains of war.

I would talk to you of beauty, of peaks thrust though the azure  air.
Still frosted in the summer light, ablaze when days fall in their shade.
Steep granite  pecked by puny pitons; feels like one 'P' too many
failed fixes by the  fallen  made.

I would talk to you of beauty, that  truth which everywhere  is seen. 
The lifting light of mornings new, the gentle bidding of each night.
When dreams will show you all of beauty....
whilst words, though chosen, only might.. the 1st two lines of this verse feel weak (a bit wishy washy) the last 2 though they feel weak close off the piece with a poignant strength that works really well.

  Tectak 2011



Originally published and pre-mauled in another place but edited further.
S1 Poppy fields of Flanders
S2 Lillooets hanging tree
S3 Dunkirk landing
S4 K2. The deadliest Mountain

Written in thoughts of a sign in a beautiful part of a Polish forest declaring that here was a site of a mass execution. There are many such examples of surface beauty hiding ugly pasts.

i think the roll of the piece works well,as it travels to places of deadly beauty, love some of the images. though 'the nuclear blue' isn't something that would put me in mind of a beach landing (S3) apart from that i felt a lot of what was going on. (as much as possible while sat in my chair) the poppy has a certain connotation of war for me. i got all but K2 without the footnote. so i question if the footnote is necessary?
the refrain worked reall even though it contained bueaty
thanks for the read