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The Angel of History

                      The Angel of History        Hindsight’s my forte, since backwards I fly In time in space but cannot turn my head To see the future. All those past events And characters – their causes and effects – That influenced the world since history Began […]

Annus Mirabilis

                            Annus Mirabilis                                      (1984)        Some years ago, my heart afloat on dreams, I sailed to bright Coolmela in the West, Where clouds of […]

Evolution

                           Evolution        All things are atoms in a cosmic flux. Though almost insignificant alone, By their collective influence they form The sum of universal interchange In a closed physical environment.      It is their interactions, each with each, That generate the […]

Life in Death

                          Life in Death         What horrors have those worms that feed on death    For me?. None, though my crawling flesh dissolves From bones more fragile than the brittlest shell. For, when Death’s cloying hand smothers my breath    And stops my mind’s still unfulfilled resolves       Within this brain’s grey mould, my […]

Inquisitor

                               Inquisitor        That starry Question-mark displayed upon the dark Probes deeply my self-doubts with chill persistency. How did we come to be?. What is the point of life?. Is there a caring God?. Or Hell?. OrParadise?.     […]

Blind Maze

                          Blind Maze   It’s sometimes said that life is like a maze Of one-way doors through which we pass each time     We start some phase in our experience          And we must choose, or blindly guess, the prime          Way forward and […]

Mystery

                            Mystery        I do not know how it will be for me In days that follow this. My thoughts are blind To what the future holds so secretly. In fate’s queer contradictions I can find No logical progressions; each new day […]

Doubt and Faith

                    Doubt and Faith      Doubt is a fact of life, we must admit. No-one who ever lived did not own doubt At some stage of hez life. And it seems fit That this should be; for we only find out The truth of things when […]

Under the Ice

                        Under the Ice   Reputedly,Antarcticais rich in oils    And minerals of every kind; sufficient spoils       To whet our appetites in raw materials          For industries. Constantly rise political Disputes over the ownership of such rare store    Under its miles-deep, age-protected ceiling-floor.       Yet, far more precious than these minerals are those […]

Vampiric Parasite

                   Vampiric Parasite       Who has not seen that, when the moon is bright And full, it sucks the lustre from the stars Into itself, leaving them leeched of light And palely distant, through vampiric force;     But on a moonless night the stars appear To […]

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