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Sixth June 1944
Sixth June 1944 (D-Day) I tell a child’s tale with the words An adult uses, to describe Impressions from the distant past, Responding to recalled events More recently experienced. Four o’clock in […]
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein (1990) Saddam, the latest tyrant born to taunt Democracy’s pacific […]
Russian Tiger
Russian Tiger (1992) This Tiger from Siberia: How brave he […]
Promethean Fires
Promethean Fires (Roumania: 1989) Vlad Dracula’s pained Princedom was for years impaled On ancient fundamental tines — vengeance and hate […]
Synoptic Biography
Synoptic Biography ( Nicolae and Elena Ceaucescou: d.25/12/1989) They rose; they spoke; […]
Near Tiryns
Near Tiryns (Agamemnon’s Death) Near Tiryns Proud triremes Thrashed inshore waves to foam […]
Astronauts
Astronauts (‘Challenger’: 28 January 1986) Riding flaming columns Into unknown space, Monitoring instruments Juddered by displaced Huge kinetic pressures Outwith your control; Juggling with computer-data — Utterly involved — Until some sudden defect Cancelled your bold try With incandescent epigraph […]
Alexander at Babylon
Alexander at Babylon (June 323 BC) “My good friend […]
The Terrible Beauty
The Terrible Beauty “A terrible beauty is born”. […]
Domnal Spanne'ach
Domnal Spanne’ach (fl. 1580-1610) i. That […]