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G. M. Hopkins
G. M. Hopkins. (1844 – 1889) Ah!. Secret singer in your self-wrought cage Of mystical constraints, who only sang When nobody could hear your instressed song. Your heart broke young to know of beauty moiled, Soiled […]
Abplanalpine Songs
Abplanalpine Songs (For Heidi) Let the rare rainbow of your singing arc Above ambition’s turbulent cascades, As from Lochmatt’s green Abplanalpine slopes Of forested seclusion your songs flow To fill lush valleys with […]
Incubus
Incubus Upon my back all day, all night, he clings Immovable as fabled Sindbad’s Old Man of the Sea; arms strangle-gripped around My neck, legs locked about my loins. He goads Me on to write whether I wish or no; Torments […]
Avoca
Avoca We made a pilgrimage to see the place Which has been, always, deep within her mind, My darling’s home and haven of repose. There, at the ‘Meeting of the Waters’, we Stood together and drew into our […]
Antigone and Hæmon
Antigone and Hæmon Her blind, self-mutilated, misconstrued, Unfortunate fraternal father dead, Faithful Antigone returned toThebes. She found her sibling Polynices slain, With brother Eteocles, for the crown, And left to rot upon the field. Her heart Compelled their burial, despite Creon’s Decree; and for […]
Do Not Be Jealous
Do Not Be Jealous Do not be jealous of my Poetry; She’s not my mistress, but my daughter sired, (In hope’s delight and despair’s agony), By inspiration’s fragile, fitful fire. So, if she sometimes occupies my hours And wriggles in between the […]
No More Star-lit Nights
No More Star-lit Nights Those stars which sparkled once in lovers’ eyes No longer shine through light-polluted skies. Along each crowded route which brightly prowls Our cities’ ever-widening expanses The predatory traffic flares and growls Incessantly beneath false luminances Devouring, in smoked breath, the feeble last Few remnants of starred night-dark’s loveliness: Making […]
Katabatic Kuchina
Katabatic Kuchina This raw wind roars and buffets me with rough And scornful blows from unseen vantage-points. Exposed, out on a Western hill, I have Nowhere to hide from these insulting knocks, But must endure until I can achieve Some place of shelter from […]
Under the Ice
Under the Ice Reputedly, Antarctica is 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, […]
The Death of Harold
The Death of Harold (14 October 1066) Outnumbered, but undaunted, stood the English king NearHastings, with his close-embattled shield-wall-ring And steadfast axemen, beating […]