This looks amazing. There feels something deeply spiritual in this act don't you think?

Water Chimes

water chimes
over stones - so quickly
the summer passing

Japanese Maple

I'm dry under
the Japanese Maple
watching rain


Photo Japanese Maple 1 by saynine

Enceladus by David Loffman

This is the poem I read at The Troubadour last night.Two things to note. Enceladus is one of Saturn's moons. In 2005 the Cassini probe discovered cryovolcanoes - volcanoes that erupt ice. This ice forms a ring around Saturn known as the e ring.The second point to note is the Roman myth of the God Saturn for whom it was prophesised that one of his children would kill him take his place. As a result Saturn devoured his children when they were born. Goya's painting of Saturn Devouring His Son seems to depict the horror of this act pretty well.


In Saturn’s hinterland
among the trapped
rubble of moons and rings
are the discarded bones
of all Saturn’s murdered children.

Cryovolcanic moon Enceladus
scatters a ribbon of ice
a littered disc of frozen tears.

Drawn from water
under the moon’s crust
stretched by the pull of the planet
the tidal currents of its oceanic mantle.

Water crushed by tectonic plates
and venting from chambers
of the moon's interior
as plumes of ice

that rises and forms
a thick torc of ice
ringing the gas colossus.
Renewed with every orbit
thickening to a blinding white smog.

A bright bead of light
circling Enceladus
drags its shackle of cryomagma
weeping a trail of grief
for all Saturn’s victims.

Stary Stary Night - The End of Season Party at The Troubadour

I'm reading at the end of season party at Coffee House Poetry, The Troubadour, 263-267 Old Brompton Road, London SW5. The theme of the evening is space, planets, stars, comets, moons, galaxies, space - the final frontier.

Monday 11 July

It starts at 8.00 finishes around 10.00 and costs about £5.00 to get in. May be see you there.

Here is a link. Coffee-House Poetry

David