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Platonic Sublimation
Platonic Sublimation Since we cannot live together As a lover with a lover, Let us live, for one another, As soul-sister and blood-brother; Separate, but not apart: Joined forever at the heart
New Wine
New Wine I drink the modern poets down, Absorb their words – their colours, strengths And clarities, their tastes and styles – As topers wine. Often I muse Upon them as I fall asleep, Hungover with the overplus Of such variety; there are So many vintages but, too, Too little time to sample […]
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 […]
Naked Thoughts
Naked Thoughts Nakedly I go to bed Every solitary night To experience sensations (Which my drowsing, dream-shot head Films for me in imaged light), Of that past day’s situations And their vivid evocations. Barely are my limbs composed In the comfort of their rest Unconfined […]
Natural Memories
Natural Memories Natural Memories i. Too often, in my life, I found myself Exiled fromEngland– Country of my birth And great sustainer of my dreams; Home of my culture And rare cricket’s poetry – And recollected, in my loneliness, Those absent beauties which had pleasured me […]
Composition
Composition Composition (from: A Theory for Art, xix) When I compose my poetry I sense, Within myself, a feeling of unrest: A quiet, self-sustaining turbulence… Control of what I think and write becomes A shared experience – another brain Seems to be integrated with my own And […]
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 […]
Lochmatt
Lochmatt (for Ingrid) I’ve travelled through so many lands And stayed in splendid places, Yet rarely have I ever found A residence whose graces – Warm welcome, simple comforts And environs […]
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’ […]
Pain
Pain I’ve a pain in my heart, But I do not know if Its ache is a part Of my death or my life. Is it pain which denotes That my heart is diseased? Or a pain which reports My emotions’ […]