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New Wine
New Wine I drink the modern poets down, Absorb their words – their colours, strengths And clarities, their tastes and styles – As topers wine. Often I muse Upon them as I fall asleep, Hungover with the overplus Of such variety; there are So many vintages but, too, Too little time to sample […]
Xiphos
Xiphos Once, over Damocles, it swung Suspended from a slender hair And threatened him with sudden death. Now, over our democracies, The fatal sword of tyranny Is poised to strike. […]
Natural Memories
Natural Memories Natural Memories i. Too often, in my life, I found myself Exiled fromEngland– Country of my birth And great sustainer of my dreams; Home of my culture And rare cricket’s poetry – And recollected, in my loneliness, Those absent beauties which had pleasured me […]
Lyric Skylark
Lyric Skylark Lyric Skylark Often I’ve stood on some wide upland swell And heard a lyric skylark, higher still, Spiral abroad its fantastic refrains Of liquid descants as it poured pure notes Into the whorls of my […]
Reason and Imagination
Reason and Imagination (Non Sequitur?) I like sound reason. (Just imagine it!). Cool logic, commonsense and practical Utility, dealing in factual Objective phenomena!. Ag’in’ it Set subjective, anarchistic feeling Leaping from lairs in dark subconsciousness, (Where untamed […]
Xanthippe
Xanthippe When he could speak, the mild philosopher observed: “You seem to take much pleasure telling me, forever, My faults and foibles. I have never claimed to be A flawless paragon; not even in those days – […]
Elixirs of Love and Hope
Elixirs of Love and Hope Elixirs of love and hope flood the dreams of youth, Promising fulfilment’s scope through some strange new truth Energised by mystic power that is meant to pass […]
I Don't Know Why (Ignorance)
I Don’t Know Why (Ignorance) (After: Richard Feynman’s: I Wonder Why). ‘I wonder why I wonder why I wonder why I wonder. I wonder why I wonder why I wonder why I wonder’ Yet… If I knew why I wonder why I wonder why […]
Objective Opportunities
Objective Opportunities Unless we hold some object in our view To fix direction for our hopeful steps To personal fulfilment, we shall fail – Trapped in morasses of self-doubt, confused – To use our talents to their best extent. Some clear ambition, be it small […]
Enigmatic Time
Enigmatic Time. (Adapted from: A Theory for Art) Does time move in spirals? I cannot say With scientific nicety; but sense Suggests it to my reason as I note How frequently event and circumstance Recur, almost coincidentally, In pages of recorded history And personal experience alike. […]