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After my Good Friday poem last week, I’m returning to the published volume of The Poetic Landscape with a poem which is set amongst the mountains of North West Scotland. The original inspiration for the poem, a painting by Anne Lever, depicts somewhere less specific. As usual, there are introductory notes in the audio recording.
Mountains of the Mind
That billion-year moment when the glow
softens and deadens, when the sky is a halo
and the figures - there was an angel once
whose androgyny unsettled all hearts,
and a woman with her arms crossed who could not know
the precise meaning of that vein of cadmium yellow -
have slipped over the hill’s line of desire
and the grace they had, gone into fields of ice and fire.
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I got a sense of the landscape being ancient and that it once held wondrous and mysterious things. The landscape could be like our minds, or our society perhaps? Because we have not seen those wondrous things in such a long time, we are no longer filled with them or contemplating them - our awe, curiosity and wonder is setting in the landscape and the grace is perhaps lost?