Noble Remnants
Noble Remnants
Artwork and Bardic Poetry Book by Joseph S. Plum
Welcome:
Greetings and welcome to American Bardic Poet.
“freedom permits perpetual anguish to burn, stone bound on a beach of time”
The poet’s fifth book of poetry is titled, Noble Remnants, and is one of a 4 book series featuring 4 of my Japanese sumi-e brush paintings of green birds on the covers.
One of my favorite poems from this book is “forward leaping eye.”
Dad and I tried to figure out the best way to translate the double meaning of the spoken word, “eye” / “I” and, in the end, decided that including the slash and second “I” ( or an uncapitalized “i” as per the poet’s preference) would distract from the poem.
Looking back I would have made a greater argument for including the “i” in the title, maybe a second title “forward leaping i” underneath would have worked. We tried our best.
Good journey,
(The poet’s daughter.)
forward leaping eye
dark night
no wind
just out of sight
walks
a traveler within.
though breathless passage
may ease the soul,
still
mirrored in tears
ancient pain
frames boundless portions
of the whole.
Read more about the poet here.
Read about the poet and the bees here.
Read my post regarding the punctuation and editing of the poems here.
Read the poem, “The Sun Has Traveled Well” here.
🙏🏼 Thank you for gathering here. May it be a blessing. 🙏🏼
About the Poet
Joseph S. Plum is a poet in the bardic tradition. He lives off-grid in rural Iowa and composes his unique chant-like oral poetry for fascinated audiences around the world. Joe has over 16 hours of oral poetry memorized in his head. He pulls from this collection of rhyming lines to compose poems according to the energy of the audience listening. Joe does all of this without writing the poems down on paper or holding any notes.
Joe’s daughter, Emily Lupita, typed up his poems over the years and launched Dreaming Deer Press to publish his work. He now has nine poetry books for sale on Amazon that can be purchased on his about page or by clicking here or searching “Joseph S. Plum” books.
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