Dr Uplift submission--A Dozen Chinoiseries
POETICAL PORTRAYALS OF ARTS (PT. I)--
TWELVE POETRIES
[Contents]
(1)
FROM CHINA THROUGH JAPAN
(2)
Vertigo
Tribute to HK Skyline
(3)
Like (Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum)
(4)
Poetical Portrayal of Ryukyu Ware
Earthen Urus and Where Abouts of Ceramics
(5)
EYES WIDE OPEN (Pt II)
(6)
Parted by Two-eyes View
Young Smile Shy Eyes
(7)
West Lake (i, ii, iii)
(8)
Rather (Landscape in Verdant and Ocher)
Academic Criticisms Before and Beyond
(9)
Bountiful Harvest
(10)
Erasures
One More In-between
(11)
King Prayer
(12)
Il Mosè--Semeiosis (Pt I)
Michelangelo in Vincoli
[Chinoiseries]
(1)
FROM CHINA THROUGH JAPAN
Loneliness of locals statics,
abundancies of moving shores,
poverties of silent peasants,
opulences in partys lights,
country sites versus citations
meeting in stammering articulations
of small is strong ends largest weak
of introversions to nature mystics--
Lao Tze steps back when Confucius proceeds
for aesthetics arent morals
when drifted apart by waters and wars
and morals are aesthetics
when suns set on rice fields.
Competitions
And shape isnot contents
when contents arent shaped
to bear ultimate consequences
of space and time
and finitudes of metaphysics
are far a way when large is large
and silence of physics (though)
is closer-by when Dao grows into Zen
to balance industrys tendencies
of turning skies and polluting airs.
If both keep on being satisfied
by Christian emotions in grand majeur
of ongoing antecedents and startling
precedents of mysteries beyond
life and death man and computer
health and wealth fiction and friction
young and old--in capitalized
translucencys dogmatricks.
Xanadu (Ofeliotfame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to ferry Taiwan - Okinawa)
(2)
Vertigo
Tribute to HK Skyline
postanalytical geometricks
in shivering lines and halting breadth
to reconstruct a newest threat
in-between vertigo and gravity
unto the 21st century
of strong men and weak buildings
portrayed by wu women from a distance wumen
of Chinese paintings
In Memory of the victims of Nine One One
Xanadu (Ofsengaifame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to An Chung Leung Joalin and Hong Kong Visual Arts Center)
(3)
Like (Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum)
like a towering bridge a medieval castle
an opaque pavilion loses his unusual transparence
to gravity of death and grievance
two heavy towers
aside bear a first roof
bear a second top roof featuring concrete slab
of four vertical signs featuring three arches
each holding two signs atop
telling heroic virtues transformed by SYS
into unification of a new China
like a three-eyed giant under a grand hat
two heavy towers his ears
signs of virtue his brows
four vertical signs his nose
too high if not flanked by two more eyes
in his forehead slanted like Buddhas
(seemingly closed though they may seem open as well
like loopholes in a castle may--and in fact they are not)
mimicking and doubling Siva third eye
simulating and broadening Guanyin seated headdress
as its roof is as purple as many Buddhas' hairs
like a sleeping giant in a verdant mountain scape
in an exuberance of cypresses
(which trees are as individual
as human faces never may be again)--
China and Churchill unto eternity
hundreds of people mounting its stairs
(seventy meters and two hundred and ninety-two steps)
like a long beard to enter its huge mouth
and see his silent tongue by Paul Landowski
his uvula wherefrom signs are drawn
which float above his lips like balloons to a cartoon
two tripods tips of his Dali moustache
two Indian pillars his all-hearing ears
if not braids and twiggy tails of his Jewish mask
at first recognized again during visit of Kuomintang leader
to Xian terracotta warriors
sober (his shape) vibrant (his color)
empty (his face) lively (his green)
people like ants mounting to a fairy queen
Xanadu (Oftufufame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to Sun Yat Sen Mausoleum Nanjing China)
(4)
Poetical Portrayal of Ryukyu Ware
Earthen Urus and Where Abouts of Ceramics
deepest blue after memory of Tuthankamon Mask
about to disappear in palish daylights of beaming
spots on top of its roof waiting for modernity
to reveal its last secrets as latest news
to summer sons of Egypt and Okinawa
....
his yellowish eyes clownish to be disclosed in nights of ware
abouts and merry go-a-bouts as trance knights
of Bartezz and Green Greener Valleys--
it poses its unquestionable color like an axiom of mystery
and solemnity under gravity of lionish dragons in scary wings
....
it doesnot open its top to dreams of civilization
as its bluishness is deeper dark than oceans
and nearer than sky heights as it centers around
its calligraphic inscription (more like a scroll
than a carving) which reads like this and thus--
....
Xanadu (Ofryukyufame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to Kingdom of Ryukyu Okinawa Japan Shakespeare
and e e cummings)
(5)
EYES WIDE OPEN (Pt II)
300,000 on a broken wall
soaring above a Rodinesque head
huge and soiled in giant pebbles
his deep wrinkles are like streams
of blood pouring down from his face
showing anguish and distress
if it isnot yet a death mask
just after execution--its eyes staring widely open
black and green--it is surreal;
disparaging gap between life and death
like a head beheaded after torture
like a face without arms.
Arm
Giant head and arm stick out of cobblestone earth
hand Michelangelesque bigger than arm
its fingers spread but each of them bowed
as meager and thin to show their phalanges clearly;
it nears to shape of bones, a skeleton--
a universal symbol of death--
flesh of arm seems to melt and liquidate down
around his elbow as if about to leave its bones
physically rather than metaphysically.
Xanadu (Oftufufame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to Memorial to the Victims of the Nanjing Massacre
Nanjing China and Wu Xianlin)
(6)
Parted by Two-eyes View
Young Smile Shy Eyes
Young smile
which broadens its cheeks a little
making them appear full without any wrinkles
mouth deeply red possibly a bit open
and if not rather fleshy lips;
seated high on open throne
subduing Madra mudra
right hands middle and ring fingers
pointing forwards;
front shape is partly hidden
behind hanging lamp that cuts its view
into two--having strength of deprivation
gain in an one-eye view
beyond coincidence and accident
surely meditating upon unchanging truths;
his smile draws a ring 'round mouth and chin
his eyes look staringly down as if embarrassed
gazing to where his feet would be
if he had stretched his legs fully out
as if it emphasizes happiness of his lotus seat
that fastens to a floor like a bud does to a flower
remaining independent of it at the same time--
large blue nimbus lining out all-known flames
and saintly figures to its borders;
when fall of lights draw a serious longitude to it
as shades of years and fears of wisdom
and his forward stare is blocked
into itself to gain solemnity
out of what like shyness could arise.
Xanadu (Oftufufame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to Fai Lai Feng Peak Flying from Afar and
Lingyin Sours Retreat Temple Hangzhou China)
(7)
West Lake
(i)
It lanes bridges
and causeways
lined by queues of tourists;
it still finds its history
in slightly and tightly sloping hills
in full and light and dark and empty green.
Ancient and modern boats floating around,
tourist pairs seated at roots of old trees
at feet of newly rebuilt ancient pagodas
when walking talking and sometimes reigning round--
raining and reigning ranging and deranging
hills trees pavilions and so on.
(ii)
West Lake Just Before Sunset
An Anglicism
Long sunshine in quiet water
that colors blue and black
in rhythm of uncaused movements
shining from behind regular pines
reminding of leaves to a rose lotus
as the sloping hills do to female hips
for which metaphors the lake
is sad to be famous.
Willows extended branches fall far down
in young green and their lover seems to blown
all over the water;
pagoda huge as an oaken trunk
stands firmly among bushes of thorns
when the sun is about to turn yellow.
And hills off sun gain a misty foggy sight
of indefinite color inbetween darkly blue and green
slightly lit up to its outlines it shines lightly
in the sky that seems gray rather than blue.
Water is filled, covered by remainders of older days
waves as caused by many paddle boats
as whispers of unknown dangers spit up your ears--
Where the results are the lost moments
one is about to forget in daily life
and is used to enlarge and amplify in art--
if art is silence and life is business
and if it isnot just the other way around
round this lake of history and reconstruction.
(iii)
Night View (Night show
while sleeping among dwarfs
of towering concrete)
lines to edges of roofs of pavilions ... horizontals ...
lights lit to high-rises at shores ... verticals ...
as dim the perimeters as busy the ads
as silent the rooftops as pulsing the towers
as simple the pavilions as complex the city
as mysterious the lake as overt the town
as square the houses as straight the highway.
Xanadu (Oftufufame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to Jay-Z and West Lake Hangzhou China)
(8)
Rather (Landscape in Verdant and Ocher)
Academic Criticisms Before and Beyond
chaotic variety of life rather than sameness
of directional flow of brush and hills
variety of texture of nature and rocks rather than statics in vitality
strong dramatization of mountains rather than silence of tiny figures
stuffy mountain ranges rather than airy valleys and ravines
busy and simple textures rather than complex and overcrowded volumes
showing psychological desolation rather than logical intensions
realities of brush rather than realism of nature
cravings of souls rather than diapositive carvings
expressionist mountain-and-water rather than impressionist bird-and-flower
Renaissance of Ming rather than Baroque of Qing
perspective of imaginary receding diagonals rather than stable one-and-only horizons
solemn and stirring mood rather than loneliness and grievance
plain truth of two dimensions rather than illusion of three-dimensionality
balance between fair and blackground rather than emphasis
of one over another, rule of either over or
latitude of individualism rather than alienation of freedom
--and Xanadu could go on for much longer--
Xanadu (Ofwangfame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to Hong Kong Museum of Art Shanghai Library Wu Li 1704
Autumn Morning in the Mountain Lake Susan Bush Hsio-yen Shih
Richard Barnhart James Cahill George Rowley a/o)
(9)
Bountiful Harvest
(I)
Girl rising up like Philippines to take a papaya
as from center of the universe if not cosmos
wherefrom sixteen branches reach out to their leaves
larger than papaya in darkish and light green
painting a near geometrical firmament under brownish brown
of modernist Trinity after and beyond Michelangelo
depicting God possibly in moderately long white beard
and monk clothes shared by two women who stretch out lengthy
in a straight horizon to utmost leftist and righteous
beyond the breadth of God's crucified arms and hands
spiritually and supernaturally without any trace of nails anymore
echoing both Noli Me Tangere and eradicate images and visions of the Holy Spirit.
Colors stay within boundaries of black and white
exemplifying earthy and natural green brown and yellow
and only some blue and gray to delineate sky and clouds
strongly stylized as with help of Art Nouveau curvilinear repetitive lines
(like hatching in a Galo Ocampo sketch)
strongly condensed as by lack of a perspectival background
in an tale without horizon or vanishing point
but the center of the universe itself in the bountiful harvest
of the horn of plenty of bananas pineapples corns squash
and foremost papaya--favorite signature of Bolong--
Renaissance vision in modernist techniques.
(II)
Rising like the Philippines in high thighs
and without any sign of feet or shoes
like a force of nature--an extension of natures giant powers
as rooted in traditional colors of rural work and manufacture--
Five stylized nymphs engaging in rural work
of making food plucking nuts preparing rice
five women and two men--one carrying bananas through the women
another waiting in a carriage cum karabaw of rice pals--
Conservative brown of ecclesiastical furniture
in S. Agustin Church from moldave to narra
nevertheless compact like a vision before and beyond nature
and naturalism to evoke a new reality
where also God emerges like an earthy natural power
though spiritual in details.
Xanadu (Ofrizalfame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to John 20:17 Victorio Edades Galo Ocampo Carlos Francisco
1935 Bountiful Harvest and Metropolitan Museum Manila Philippines)
(10)
Erasures
One More In-between
Nearly erased paintings
showing some sinuses only
beyond black and white
demonstrating smears of yellow
into brown unto blue;
airy ink and silky paper
reduced to earthly connotation
beyond painting and sculpture
transparence and opacity
deterioration of materials
unto essence of elements;
in between matter and minerals
in between accidents and chemicals
in between coincidence and structure
in between nature and culture
in between who and what
in between where and when
in between why and nill
falls art--
stating duration of marble
as blurrings oppose consistency
of this very presence moment
when soil signs time like a seal
beyond every precious second
for it is just what you see and bear
right now right here rightly how.
Xanadu (Ofsengaifame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to Cy Twombly TS Eliot Fuzhou Marble Master-of-Nets Garden
Suzhou China and UNESCO)
(11)
King Prayer
Black and white visions of MLK
shouting speaking crying
prayer in Stars and Stripes
of devote open hands closed to
each other like eyes downwards
where a crucifix gravitates
towards eternitys dark matter.
Xanadu (Ofbeardenfame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to Alexander Austin his 1994 Spirit of the Dream
and Studio Museum Harlem NY NY)
(12)
Il Mosè--Semeiosis (Pt I)
Michelangelo in Vincoli
Some vessels from his chin down
constituting his long beard
under neatly short-cut head,
meticulously imitating arms,
fine folds in his drapery
unfolding just one knee;
hands--or only fingers--
might be too tall gripping
in lengths of heirs' hairs--
as in a Beatific Vision
sun beams yellow from front windows
grid an arbitrary free pattern on
the marble in this Old Sacristy,
as free as dusk and dawn
as free as summer and winter
as free as spring and autumn.
Index, icon or symbol--Nature impersonated-
-see the sun on his cheeks, his fore-
head, his skin, his dress--Shine!
Xanadu (Ofdantefame) for Dr Uplift (November 2005)
(Thanks to Michelangelo and his Moses in San Pietro in Vincoli Vatican City)
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