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Autumn
Autumn This dying-season’s palette lightly paints Its varied colours on the waving trees, Reminding us that Autumn’s breezes soon Will yield to Winter’s storming gales before Spring’s stirring freshets may again prelude The pleasures of warm Summer’s mellow days. Already […]
What Greater Miracle
What Greater Miracle The miracle of Spring will never cease To stimulate heart-felt imaginings!. From barren-seeming rock and soil the trees (By warmth of vernal days new-energised And strong attraction from their budding leaves’ And flowers’ needs), dredging vital ichor Up roots and fine […]
Implosion
Implosion A nuclear reactor, when its heat Exceeds a prescribed limit, may implode With cataclysmic force, destroying all In its vicinity. To help prevent Disaster it is carefully controlled By stringent safeguards that can be deployed To dissipate excessive energy Whenever need […]
Quantum Theory
Quantum Theory (After reading Other Worlds by Paul Davies) My mind seems cosmologically large Because all things I see — or touch, or hear, Or merely sense — become absorbed by me. The world, its […]
Exile
Exile If break you must, then silent do the deed My painful heart; we cannot let her hear The dissolution of your muscled force!. Unheard within this exiled body, tear Yourself apart with noiseless wrack and bleed To death with no sound of remorse!. […]
Harold at Hastings
Harold at Hastings (14 October 1066) Harald Hardraada, King of Norway, dead With traitor Tostig (Earl Northumberland Before his baser nature had been known), Caught by surprise at Yorkshire’s Stamford Bridge By England’s king as they invaded there To steal his crown away; now that same king, Harold, […]
Under the Ice
Under the Ice Reputedly, Antarctica is rich in oils And minerals of every kind, sufficient spoils To whet our appetites in raw material For industries. Already rise political Disputes over the […]
The Fresh Green Leaves
The Fresh Green Leaves The fresh green leaves of Spring once more declare To wintered hearts that all life’s bitter woes Are transient; that warmer tomorrows Will come to melt iced hopes snowed under care. Blossoms in tree and bush, flowers in field And hedgerow, are bright […]
Magpie
Magpie Fly, bold piebald bird, away from my home!. You sharp-eyed thief of gaudy curios And gossip of importunate discord, Who bring misfortune on your two-toned plumes And herald worse disasters yet to be; There is not space enough, here, […]
Creative Progress
Creative Progress Around us, everything we see reveals Progress, from youth to age, simplicity To more complexity. Innocence feels Growing experience, whilst clumsiness Learns facile skills. These are progressions good And natural, made by Creation’s rules. […]