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Phœnix
Phœnix Five hundred disappointments turn to ash; Five hundred sadnesses their embers add; And yet five hundred more bleak problems drop Their charred remains upon the reeking pyre Of life’s ambitions and frustrated dreams. The […]
To Touch Your Heart
To Touch your Heart? Since love itself is enough, What must I do to touch your heart?. To you it makes no difference Whether, (like Chauvin), I strut proud — Flaunting my independent mind — Or scrape in Helot servitude Anticipating each your whim. If […]
Into the Unknown
Into the Unknown Westwards, on winds of hope, I sail at last Towards my bright tomorrow’s hidden lands; As once Columbus and Magellan went To find their destinies in history. Columbus for the Indies set his course But found, instead, Southern America; […]
Pandora's Box
Pandora’s Box Our love is like Pandora’s Box, So I implore you not to pry Too closely. Nor to force those locks Which hold its secret from each eye. Let’s guard it with devoted care To keep its mystery from harm, In true belief that we can share […]
Forest Rides
Forest Rides Spurred by anxieties my frantic thoughts Gallop unchecked full tilt through forest rides. Borne boldly down vague-shadowed avenues Of indeterminance my questing mind Quick-scans for some intransience amongst Dense-tangled unimportances that blur With Nature’s scarce-observed felicities As in my headlong haste they hurtle past […]
Childhood Revisited
Childhood Revisited Of life’s best pleasures I can think of none Comparable to that which came to me When sharing the developmental growth To adulthood of my own children’s lives. It was not possible in my career Always to […]
Œdipus
Œdipus Introduction: There are several versions of the Œdipus myth – Homer put one in the Iliad, Aeschylus [Seven Against Thebes] […]
Doubt and Faith
Doubt and Faith Doubt is a fact of life, we must admit. No-one who ever lived did not own doubt At some stage of hez life. And it seems fit That this should be; for we only find out The truth of things when […]
Interesting Possibilities
Interesting Possibilities (After The Mask: W.B. Yeats) […]