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More Than A Score
More Than a Score (Cossonay CC –14/7/1996) i. […]
Sacrificial Obsession
Sacrificial Obsession (Mem: 10 Sept 1989) Quite casual it was!. I said: “Goodbye!”. You answered with a silent nod. Then I Departed. At your […]
Catastrophe
Catastrophe! Who has not viewn, (on film or TV screen, Or the event itself), that awesome scene When — from unstably-laden slope, with vibrant shock — A sudden avalanche […]
Iphigenia at Aulis
Iphigenia at Aulis (After Euripides) They stripped her stark, then threw her body bare Backwards upon the altar of their fear; But as the sacred knife was sharply drawn Across her throat, she changed — into a fawn!.
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 […]
As Moth to Flame
As Moth to Flame As moth to flame, so I to you Although I knew such fateful game Should best be spurned. Yet my […]
The Return
The Return Eastwards the storm-wracked prow, steered for hope’s harbour, home!. (Freeboard Near-swamped by freighted weight of rarities cramming the holds And decks, this cargo could buy family security […]