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In Turbulent Times
In Turbulent Times “Behold, I make all things new”. (Revelations: Ch.2,v.5) We live, these days, in times of turbulence. The weather-patterns are unusual, Political reforms confound us all […]
Free Will?
Free Will? Are human minds decisively supreme Or merely agents, not determinants, Of what was, is, or shall yet come to be?. Does each have absolute autonomy, Or is it just one element within Some vast, intergalactical design By what believers […]
In Due Good Time
In Due Good Time This life of ours has much of grief and woe: How it will end we none of us can know; And that is just as well for us, since we Have quite enough of present misery!. […]
Homes for Illusions
Homes for Illusions How strangely specious our minds can be In their responses to reality. To hide from their own sensitivities To facts, they build complex delusions And shelter in such weird confusions As might protect their vulnerabilities; Although glass walls of subjectivity Can’t hide […]
Denominative Devices
Denominative Devices You cannot live forever, no matter how you scheme; The whole of your endeavour fades like a labile dream. But habits of your living Etch images in time, With history’s page receiving Each graven paradigm. What you create […]
Immoderation
Immoderation The frantic thrusts of lust’s long loin Engender ill-considered fruits. If we took thought to preconceive The outcome of precipitance We might become more temperate And chaste in what we do inside The darkened chambers of our minds Behind the curtained eyes of haste. Passion is honourable when It […]
Dangerous Minds
Dangerous Minds Dangerous Minds ‘…the worst Are full of passionate intensity’. [W.B. Yeats: The Second Coming] Zealots are dangerous. Their minds are closed About their sole enthusiastic cause: Their bright eyes blind to contra-evidence, Their keen […]
The Greek Myths
The Greek Myths The Greek Myths (After re-reading Robert Graves’s The Greek Myths) i. The Greek mythologers have given to the world, (In stories of their great divinities and tales Of heroes and of heroines almost as great As […]
Winter Gales
Winter Gales Those galling gales, which in rough Winter rush Across bald-headed mountaintops exposed To their wild buffetings as captives to Some hateful prison-master’s vicious scourge: Over the cringing, wooded-hillsides’ slopes They violently hasten with rude roars, Like raging sea-surges pounding rock shores Intemperately. All the laggard leaves They […]
Lest You Rue
Lest You Rue. Do not linger, lucky maid; Go with him Who for your heart has prayed, For see, he loves you!. Do not proudly stand aloof, Nor seek from him Too much proof As a final token, For his heart has spoken!. […]