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Love-Hate Relationships
Love-Hate Relationships Know this: the boundary that separates Rapturous loves from paroxysmal hates Is less substantial than air’s density. As East from West is indivisible, (Because their loci are invisible And found by […]
Bloody Tears
Bloody Tears “There are few sights or sounds more distressing than to discover a man weeping”. (Anon). Men rarely cry in public. It’s not thought Their right response to suffering […]
Catastrophe
Catastrophe! Who has not viewn, (on film or TV screen, Or the event itself), that awesome scene When — from unstably-laden slope, with vibrant shock — A sudden avalanche […]
Keatsian Koan
Keatsian Koan “Beauts is Truth, Truth Beauty”, wrote John Keats, And in some special sense this may be so; But not all beauties can be troped as truths, Nor are truths always beautiful to know: […]
Promethean Fires
Promethean Fires (Roumania: 1989) Vlad Dracula’s pained Princedom was for years impaled On ancient fundamental tines — vengeance and hate […]
Performances
Performances If it were these that really mattered most — The personal performance and the voice — If it were these that powered poetry, Then Shakespeare long would have been lost to us With all past poets […]
The Long Way Round
The Long Way Round (For my sons) Your lives’ ambitious targets can be traced […]
Beating Retreat
Beating Retreat (For: Gordon ‘Mac’ McDonald) (RIP 31/3/1985: aet 21) At the […]
Cycles
Cycles “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…” […]