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Winter
Winter Frost-bitten months of chill winds, fogs and snow, When icicles point from steep, glacial eaves Down to crisp-ermined soil. Evergreen leaves, Foot-track and house, slick path with hoar fence-post And hardy shrubbery your coverlet Of clustered crystals fleck with daubs of green And brown. If my […]
Nocturne
Nocturne Still the dark night – a penitential calm In expiation of the rude day’s din – And all seems peaceable within The silent house. As fragrant as a balm A low breeze lulls the trees. Over the soundless […]
What is Death?
What is Death? But what is death, Except the failing of our breath And quittance of this troubled world?. A final end?. Is death a hope To loose our mortal bonds and find Release from imperfection, pain And human grief?. […]
Holy Land
Holy Land Is this the stable crib in which was laid The new-born Christ?. And was it here they came, Those Ancient seers, who travelled far to meet And honour Him with presents rich and rare?. At this rude hut did […]
Marie
Marie Far off, upon the mountain-tops, I saw A mighty host, in martial lines arrayed, Descending to the luscious plains below. My breastplate I assumed, took up my sword, And hurried out to meet the threatening throng. A short way off, I stopped and asked their Chief Why they had entered […]
Cyprus (1956-1976)
Cyprus (1956-1976) Silver-eyedOlympusstares solemnly At his quarrelsome, callow sons, who rush Ceaselessly from one rash confrontation To another with their island brothers. “When will […]
Sleep
Sleep Come, gentle Sleep, and kiss my fevered brow. Empty my mind of its tempestuous thoughts. Then, in the comfort of your silent courts Of calm contentment where cool breezes blow, Cradle me closely in your loving arms. […]
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 […]
Mysterious Sea
Mysterious Sea Concealing waters – rolling dark and deep In cloudy grandeur round tidelines and clifts – Opaque as midnight over brumous strands; What mysteries and wonders lie asleep Beneath your blanket, which forever lifts And falls above their darkling […]
Pope John-Paul II
Pope John-Paul II (1920-2005) (Adapted from: Neknus, Canto LIII) The human spirit will accept defeat By nothing in creation which it knows. Battered it may be; brought down to its knees By the gross blows of circumstantial fate; Yet still undaunted […]