~ 2009 ~
Poem for the Rivers Project by Tom Konyves
Poem by Tom Konyves
Video by Alex Konyves
In a comment at the YouTube posting, Tom gives the background for the poem.
In the summer of 2003, my 18-year-old son Alexander was working for a “Rivers” project at the Surrey Art Gallery — he kept pestering me to submit a poem. I wrote a 13-line poem which we posited over Alex’s abstract water-related images, all sustained by the drone of an unrelenting Didjeridu. The poetic narrative is resolved by a verbo-visual pun on the underside of the Alex Fraser Bridge.
El lenguaje de las hormigas (The Language of Ants) by Fernando Sarría
Poem by Fernando Sarría
Video by sonolopez (Javier López Clemente)
El lenguaje de las hormigas es húmedo, constante,
ligero pero lleno de matices y sabores.
Nada se determina de antemano,
reconocen las sendas claras y oscuras de la tierra,
de un cuerpo sonrosado y de un anhelo.
Su murmullo es la marca de su saliva,
la piel siempre deseándolas
y aunque cierren los oídos, las ventanas,
las puertas de la cama,
ellas, pacientes, sabrán esperar.
The Language by Robert Creeley
Animation by Chad Edwards of a poem by Robert Creeley.
Facing It by Yusef Komunyakaa
http://youtu.be/IaeNQC7PWK4
Read by Michael Lythgoe for the Favorite Poem Project
“Methought I saw my late espoused Saint…” by John Milton
Sonnet 23 by John Milton
Recited by Ian Richardson, from the 1984 TV series “Six Centuries of Verse,” directed by Richard Mervyn
Triple Sonnet of the Plush Pony Part 3, by Anne Carson
Poem by Anne Carson, from Possessive Used as Drink (Me), a lecture on pronouns in the form of 15 sonnets
Video by Sadie Wilcox
See “Recipe” for more information on the production.
Cadáver by Daniel Iván
Poem and video by Daniel Iván
The Ruin (anonymous Anglo-Saxon)
Anonymous Anglo-Saxon poem
Film by Stuart Lee (including the reading and translation)
The anachronistic contrast between modern ruins and Anglo Saxon language and costume is extremely effective here. Kudos to Mr. Lee, and I hope more Anglo-Saxon poetry videos are in the offing.
Haiku by Ryôkan
Video illustration by erikdegroot88 of a haiku by Ryôkan Daigu
