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The Giant's Ransom
The Giant’s Ransom You promised you would pay, if I would free You from your bondage near Coolmela‘s wood Some twenty ago. So, with my magic Mantra, I made plea To elemental Noumena who could Release you from your woe. I am now bound in debt’s extremity, (With urgent […]
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 […]
Night Queen
Night Queen ; How bland her features do appear, As if no force nor passion stir Behind or underneath her stare; And yet, her powers are immense!. She pulls great seas around the world, Causing huge tidal-waves to roar With tumult strength on every shore Where onto rugged rocks […]
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 Long Way Round
The Long Way Round (For my sons) Your lives’ ambitious targets can be traced […]
Beating Retreat
Beating Retreat (For: Gordon ‘Mac’ McDonald) (RIP 31/3/1985: aet 21) At the […]
The Promise
The Promise There bloomed a halo round the moon last night; A paley circle of unbroken light Some twenty moon-diameters across At least and glowing in my startled sight. […]
Cycles
Cycles “Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world…” […]
Performance Poetry
Performance Poetry (Adapted from: A Theory for Art) Real poetry lives in the written word More durably than in the spoken phrase Which sounds superb, but makes no sense when seen. Rich quality of thought, clearly expressed In telling composition, has more worth Than oratorical charades, (performed Persuasively by […]