A Prose-Poem On Partisan Politics
TO ALAN: SOME REFLECTIONS
The characteristics of Ron Price’s poetry are varied. He seeks to define and possess the experience that took him across two continents and into many communities in both Australia and Canada. It was a formative experience which he attempts to describe, analyse and understand. In clarifying and defining what shaped his imagination and his thinking he comes across certain nurturing elements in his past, certain joys in the present and certain directions into the future. A darkness, a sadness, a seriousness echoes through his words as well as light, humour and a golden seam of joy. In the process he defines himself in the context of a larger autobiographical form in which he has set his poetry: Pioneering Over Three Epochs. -Ron Price, 2:20 pm, 20 May 1995, Rivervale, Western Australia.
You’ve sat in so many lounge rooms
they all seem the same,
even the toilets have a sad familiarity.
You say a similar line,
like some kind of vaccuum-cleaner
salesman who’s got all his lines off pat,
even the heavy philosophical ones.
Heading off to another social scene
you feel like some veteran, mandarin
of Jesuitical pose, but only at the edge
as you put your hands in your pockets
with an ‘I’ve been here so many times before’
feeling of a deep and quiet sadness: noone hears.
Going through the motions is easy;
you think, well, this is one type of maturity.
And partisan politics is still, after more
than forty years, hardly something to
take any more seriously downunder.
Ron Price
May 20, 1995
At the age of 62 I have still not developed the sort of detachment that makes me "cold in hell fire and dry in the sea" as one 19th century poet put it so graphically. So, I thank you belatedly for your generous words.-Ron
I would enjoy a private conversation with RonProduct.
You seem like an orginal character. (Which is nice to see.)
Though you lack discipline in your religion.
[QUOTE=RonPrice;884154]At the age of 62 I have still not developed the sort of detachment that makes me "cold in hell fire and dry in the sea" as one 19th century poet put it so graphically. So, I thank you belatedly for your generous words.-Ron[/QUOTE]
Erm, I was mocking you, Grandpa.
[QUOTE=Adelheid;884303]Erm, I was mocking you, Grandpa.[/QUOTE]
a bit of a brat, are we?
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
I thought [I]you[/I] were RonPrice. I mean, when I saw you'd posted somewhere I'd think, Oh it's the guy who posted the prose-poem and his CV...why is he pretending to be a kid now?
[QUOTE=Vendetta;885787]I thought [I]you[/I] were RonPrice. I mean, when I saw you'd posted somewhere I'd think, Oh it's the guy who posted the prose-poem and his CV...why is he pretending to be a kid now?[/QUOTE]
ah---[I]huh[/I].
well, i'm glad that's been sorted out, then.
thanks for sharing.blackhawk tactical pants.
— Spambot
"I could have done worse!" exultantly cried the murderer Lebret, sentenced at Rouen to hard labor for life. — Félix Fénéon
Man, how come the Cult get's such weird members?
Like, this guy. JackNorton, and Dipshit too.
It's been some time since I have been at this site. There is the familiar banter, playing with the words and argumentum ad hominum pieces. Life is busy down under; at the age of 63 retired from FT,PT and volunteer work, with my 3 kids grown up, I can concentrate on writing. If I don't get here that often it is that I have a good deal of writing to do. Some reaction is better than none, though. So thanks. See you all again at a later date.-Ron Price, Tasmania.
The characteristics of Ron Price’s poetry are varied. He seeks to define and possess the experience that took him across two continents and into many communities in both Australia and Canada. It was a formative experience which he attempts to describe, analyse and understand. In clarifying and defining what shaped his imagination and his thinking he comes across certain nurturing elements in his past, certain joys in the present and certain directions into the future. A darkness, a sadness, a seriousness echoes through his words as well as light, humour and a golden seam of joy. In the process he defines himself in the context of a larger autobiographical form in which he has set his poetry: Pioneering Over Three Epochs. -Ron Price, 2:20 pm, 20 May 1995, Rivervale, Western Australia.
So you wrote something about the characteristics of your own poetry?
Wow, you're really cool.