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Sunlit Waterfalls
Sunlit Waterfalls “Here lies one whose name was writ in water”. [Epitaph: tomb of John Keats atRome]. Though water seems an unsubstantial thing Having no shape that may be called its own, (Unlike some monument of carven stone), […]
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 […]
Poetry and Bathostry
Poetry and Bathostry Poetry and Bathostry are antitheses. That is momentous, descriptive, evocative, Memorable perfection, controlled and gracious thought, Which draws a comprehensible picture of life In metrical designs of vivid artistry. Shapeless, undisciplined, prosaic, vague, This is Arhythmic, ungrammatical and trivial, Unpolished, unimaginative, […]
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 – […]
Nature's Gossips
Nature’s Gossips Along the margins of some forest paths Fresh, purling rivulets run noisily. They are wild Nature’s gossips and will tell The seasons of the year in tones that brook No arguments from sceptic minds. They’ll say Where foxes’ dens and badgers’ […]
Father!
Father! “Who is this stranger – solemn, pensive, mute – Who haunts our house with vacantly vague looks; Whose mind seems more engaged with dreams than facts, Oblivious of problems; distantly Preoccupied with abstruse reveries; Muttering incantations to himself whilst Counting numbers on his chin, with fingers […]
Holidays
Holidays A few short hours of homeliness – Snatched minutes of sheer bliss – Before returning to the drudge Of working under constant stress. How we love each carefree moment Of release before we trudge, […]
Seduction
Seduction Surely the charming phrase, the lavish gift, The brilliant display, are mere attires Of courting-rituals, designed for swift Submission to lust’s transient desires?. Do not the birds and beasts, to gratify Instinctive urges, flatter each their sort […]
Autumn Evening
Autumn Evening The watercolours of an Autumn evening wash The sky, above the darkling Western hills, with stains Of intermingled pink, pale gold, green-violet. Against this lambent backdrop stand the distant trees Poised in stark, uncompromising poses, more clear In outline, now, than at the hazy […]