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by Joy Author IconMail Icon
Rated: 18+ · Book · Drama · #1253431
Poetry in April -- in celebration
Daisies poetry signature


This is my Second Book of poems. I may not have eaten the plums from the icebox, but I am guilty of writing poetry without thinking too much, without laboring over words and lines.

This Is Just to Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

          by William Carlos Williams

You, too, forgive me for I only love the writing process; the result is secondary...And please never mind that I am also aping William Carlos Williams's false apology. *Wink**Laugh*


*Note1*

From where does the title Beetlebung and Kettlehorn come from?

The name Beetlebung and Kettlehorn has to do with ancient whaling practices and Martha’s Vineyard and Cape Cod.

During the nineteenth century, because of its dense white wood, the tupelo tree was used in whale oil casks made of copper. Beetle was the mallet made from the Tupelo tree and bung was the stopper in the cask hole. In Martha’s vineyard, the Tupelo tree is still known as the Beetlebung tree, and at Chilmark there, is a Beetlebung Corner, with shops at Chilmark Center, from where roads lead to other interesting points.

Kettlehorn, as well as being an ancient surname, refers to a piece of equipment resembling to but much bigger than a shoe-horn, used to stir the hot blubber and separate the fine oil from the denser particles. Whale oil was a popular commodity and, as a fuel, was used for lighting the dark, burning to provide heat and as an aid in cooking. After the whale was hunted, men in a boat cut strips of blubber from the whale's back, tied them together and rowed ashore. There the fat was cut into smaller pieces to be boiled into oil in large copper kettles.

In addition there exists kettle corn in Cape Cod which are corn chips fried in kettles and sometimes mistakenly called kettlehorns.

For some reason, way back when, the words Beetlebung and Kettlehorn were used together and, at one time or another, were given to shops and other things that go together as titles.

I adopted the name for my on-the-spot poetry in reference to the idea of blubber. *Laugh*



"Poetry the shortest distance between two humans"
Lawrence Ferlinghetti


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#295. Confusion
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#294. Maple
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#293. Solace
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#291. Rock
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#272. A Dream I Once Had
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#267. Ashes
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#265. Such Sweet Sorrow
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#263. To World
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#262. Quercus Suber
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#261. In My Pocket
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#260. Never There
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#259. Resume
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#256. Consoling Tones
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#250. On the Ice
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#249. Losing Count
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#248. Laundry-Room Ghost
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#247. Elegy to Interior Parts Cordoned Off
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#246. Every Friday
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#244. Bhujangasana (The Cobra Pose)
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#243. A Change of Habit
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#242. Noticing
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#241. Straying
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#240. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
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#239. He Sleeps through the Night
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#238. I Took a Walk
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#236. Footprints
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#231. By the Ocean
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#230. Walls
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#229. When Grandpa Took Me to the Fair
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#228. E-Mail
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