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This is Spring
This is Spring Winter has cast Its dismal attire Into the cloudless sky. Birds choir on high In cheerful melody; For now it’s Spring!. Life-bringing Spring; Spirit of beauty; Season of joyfulness. Each year we bless It for its […]
Funerals
Funerals Past I. Four stalwart neighbours, Hats in hands, With coffin hoisted to broad shoulders, Shuffled through the darkened door. […]
Sunset at Ghadhira
Sunset at Ghadhira (Malta GC) The […]
Sublimating Love
Sublimating Love My solemn-seeming visage hides, underneath its frown, That sensitive affection which you alone have known. Love for you is sublimating all my baser traits, Refining me till I become fit foil for your […]
Happy Man
Happy Man Oh happy man, who has no heavy cares; Glad life, for you, can hold no troubling fears. Oh happy man, who calmly sleeps each night; Whom endless wakeful hours do not affright. […]
Reflected Love
Reflected Love When you look into a mirror, there you see my heart; For you are the very substance of that hidden part. Your eager eyes, like mine, gaze out searching far and wide For sight of their sole darling: too often they have cried. Warmest endearments […]
Custom
Custom (First Formal Officers’ Mess Dinner) The bell for Dinner sounds its solemn dirge As I sit pensively within my room. I feel an almost overpowering urge To flee from formal pomp’s depressing gloom. Yet, in […]
Rain
Clear Raindrops Clear blazes the molten sun’s burnished rays; Life-juice they draw from the withering crops. Each thirst-wracked plant its wan head weakly drops As the searing heat slow-tortures their days; […]