Thursday 28 September 2017

Who lived here for half a century?




Scroll down for clues 
and finally the answer: 




Clue 1: 


L'ART 1910

Green arsenic smeared on an egg-white cloth, 
Crushed strawberries! Come, let us feast our eyes.


Clue 2:


EPITAPH


And Li Po also died drunk. 
He tried to embrace a moon 
In the Yellow River.


Clue 3: 


A SONG OF DEGREES II


The wind moves above the wheat -
With a silver crashing, 
A thin war of metal.

I have known the golden disk,
I have seen it melting above me.
I have known the stone-bright place,
The hall of clear colours.



THE ANSWER:



He never lost his love for Venice
EZRA POUND
Titan of Poetry
Lived in this house for half a century

4 comments:

  1. To explore (not steal) a few ounces of his words. _m

    sap to root
    our newly broken wood
    time to carve

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  2. Your most recent run looked fabulous. What wonderful scenery. That's quite some climb too. Hope the calf settles. Grinning at Fartlek for the elderly! :o).

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    1. Thanks CT. And your half marathon photos - a great time was had by all. Hope the creaky knee's ok.

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