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Friendship
Friendship If you would like to chat, (Of this thing or of that), In trustful confidence: Remember your best friends. With others or alone, (In person or on phone, By e-mail or by post), There’s nothing to be lost. In good times and in […]
The Quest
The Quest In vain I sailed on various seas, Fruitlessly trudged misleading tracks Through steaming forests and across Soul-scouring deserts’ arid screes. Poor heir of Cook, Livingstone, bold Burton, I long traversed the world In […]
The Judgement of Paris
The Judgement of Paris How could he know?. That on his choice Hung, epical, the futures of His family, his natalTroy And its then fortunate inhabitants?. That Agamemnon with his Grecian horde Would alter history because Æneas, who escaped their wrath, Would […]
We Remember
We Remember Our tiny isle is closely wrapped In the broad mantle of the sea; Our knotted shores are overlapped By billows heaving endlessly. Sometimes, when huge storm-breakers, capped With foaming curling crests, rear high And menacing about us – chapped By […]
Other Worlds
Other Worlds In the vicinity Of Vega and of Fomalhaut There are said to be Other planetary systems. If so, should we still doubt That evolution’s history, (Guided by Nature’s wisdom And human ingenuity), Will offer our posterity New places of security – Fresh paradisalEdens Or […]
Illusions?
Illusions? Some nights, from out the dark, I seem to see Dim flicker-lights of stars behind thin mists Which veil them from my focussed sight. Is this because I think they’re there, and so permit my brain To turn my thought into apparent fact?. Or is peripheral night-vision more acute?. […]
The Old Woman
The Old Woman. Frail as winter twigs she goes; As tremblant, too!. Pale eyes peer blankly down thin nose; Shuffles each shoe. Age holds her in its palsied thrall, Infirm and slow; Fitful faint memories are all She now can know!. Impatient for her dragging time […]
In Turbulent Times
In Turbulent Times “Behold, I make all things new”. (Revelations: Ch.2,v.5) We live, these days, in times of turbulence. The weather-patterns are unusual, Political reforms confound us all […]