2 poems by Gordon Phinn

Unrelenting

Word sentence stanza,
Metaphor a portal

To image and after,
the form taking shape

Despite incessant shifting,
the delightfully imprecise

Shaking free of perception,
The writer being written

Out of the narrative
As the hat is fitted

On the outgoing head,
The rain unrelenting.





Unrecorded

Putting pen to paper
Precisely as your prior

Participants in the process
Slowly procured their place

In line, you lock on to that
Signal offered by the Muses

And make the best of the fact
That you've left the precious

Pen and portable notebook
By the pile on the poetry table

Back in the home of your 
Heart's desire, and your 

Roaming through the rendered
World will now go unrecorded.

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Gordon Phinn has been writing and publishing in a number of genres and formats since 1975, and through a great deal of change and growth in CanLit.  Canada’s literary field has gone from the nationalist birth pangs of ’65 – ’75 to its full blooming of the 80s and 90s, and it is currently coping as well as it can with the immediacy and proliferation of digital exposure and all the financial trials that come with it. Phinn’s own reactions was to open himself to the practices of blogging and videoblogging, and he now considers himself something of an old hand. His Youtube podcast, GordsPoetryShow, has just reached its 78th edition, and his my blog “anotherwordofgord” at WordPress continues to attract subscribers.

Phinn’s book output is split between literary titles, most recently, The Poet Stuart, Bowering and McFadden, and It’s All About Me. His metaphysical expression includes You Are History, The Word of Gord On The Meaning Of Life.

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