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Interesting Possibilities
Interesting Possibilities (After The Mask: W.B. Yeats) […]
What is Death?
What is Death? But what is death, Except the failing of our breath And quittance of this troubled world?. A final end?. Is death a hope To loose our mortal bonds and find Release from imperfection, pain And human grief?. […]
Pope John-Paul II
Pope John-Paul II (1920-2005) (Adapted from: Neknus, Canto LIII) The human spirit will accept defeat By nothing in creation which it knows. Battered it may be; brought down to its knees By the gross blows of circumstantial fate; Yet still undaunted […]
Meteors
Meteors Some early deaths, (like meteors that die), Leave vacant spaces in the universe Where once their beauties charmed the viewer’s eye. No kinds of consolation can reverse The situation and bring back to light Their loveliness. […]
The Space Between
The Space Between We’d marvel should it prove some mind devised Planets, bright stars and complex galaxies: Placing them in relationships so fine That they, (from ancient times through to this day), Stayed recognisable upon the skies As astrological phenomena Balanced amidst unstable cosmic flux. Nor […]
Cosmic Reflection
Cosmic Reflection (Adapted from a 1986 speech given by Charles, Prince of Wales). I feel that, deep within each human soul, There is a deep, subconscious Reflection – As from the surface of a sunlit lake In unspoilt countryside – Of the natural harmony and […]
Dreams?
Dreams? (Adapted from The Warrant) Are we mere shadows of imagined dreams, (As unsubstantial as our thoughts), Who fade with them Into the darkness which surrounds Each life with vague forgetfulness, With thoughtless disregard, Apparent randomness, purposelessness, Frustrated hopes, ambitions unfulfilled And insignificance?. So many withered dreams, like Autumn leaves, […]
Solitude's Demands
Solitude’s Demands Those who would stretch their minds with weighty thought Seek solitude, that they may concentrate Upon the subjects of their choice, without Distraction. Interruptions militate Against coherence and often frustrate Successful culmination of intense Research and contemplation, (so […]
Futurity
Futurity As ghosts from the past may guide us hereafter, Memories may shape what yet is to be. As parental traits have predestined children, Dreams have foreshadowed futurity. As sleep is the gate to daily awakening, Death is the door to eternity.
To God the Glory
To God the Glory “To God the glory!” says the lofty spire: A finger of admonishment that points To Heaven above Salisbury. Our eyes Are forced upwards and for a moment – brief And calm – our hearts acknowledge Deity As supervisor of all that […]