Poetry (1 Viewer)

[Rabbitohs]

Gday all
Does anyone know where i could obtain a copy of the poem My father Began as a Gog by the Australian poet Ian Mudie.

Thanks

 

[BlackJack]

Wow, i've got the poem right here... but I've got it from my ESL teacher tho so I don't know which book...
Wait, I've got "My father began as a God" instead... anyhow, you want me to type this one up?

 

[Rabbitohs]

Wait, I've got "My father began as a God" instead... anyhow, you want me to type this one up?

Yeah BlackJack thats what i meant. Mate it would be hughly appreciated if you could type it up for me i lost my only copy. Thanks heaps mate.

 

[BlackJack]

My father began as a god,
fulll of heroic tales
of days when he was young.
His laws were as immutable
as if brought down from Sinai,
which indeed he thought they were.

He fearlessly lifted me to heaven
by a mere swing to his shoulder,
and made me a godling
by seating me astride
our milch-cow's back, and, too,
upon the great white gobbler
of which others went in constant fear.

Strange then how he shrank and shrank
until by my time of adolescence
he had become a foolish small old man
with silly and outmoded views
of life and of morality.

Stranger still
that as I became older
his faults and intolerances
scaled away uinto the past,
revealing virtues
such as honesty, generosity, integrity.

Strangest of all
how the deeper he recedes into thee grave
the more I see myself
as just one more of all the little men
who creep through life
not knee-high to this long dead god.

-Ian Mudie

 

[Rabbitohs]

Thanks a lot for that mate. What type of stuff are you going to write about on it. (if you dont mind me asking)

 

[BlackJack]

Since I do Gwen Harwood, I thought it'd link well with Father and Child and Mother who gave me life... so the usual stuff about the changing relationship between parents and children, and the child's change in growing up.

 

[Rabbitohs]

Yeah same here. Thanks mate and good luck.

 

[BlackJack]

You too.

 

[gNoLa miDin]

U can get it at Ian Mudie: My father began as a God